Edward III’s griffin instead of still more Tudor publicity….!

 

If you go to the link below, you can zoom right in on this illustration

Here we have the Queen’s final beast in the silver and gold coin series. Well, a least it’s not another mangy Tudor creature this time! 

The usurpers probably pinched it somewhere along the line, but Edward III—a dazzling Plantagenet if ever there was one!—got there first.