Depicts King Charles III’s effigy, surrounded by the Latin inscription. Engraver's initials on the neck.

CHARLES III DEI GRATIA REX FIDEI DEFENSOR means King Charles III, by the Grace of God King, Defender of the Faith.

Engraver: Martin Jennings (MJ)

Depicts the Seymour Unicorn standing beside a shield bearing the six-quartered arms of Jane Seymour and around its neck a chain, surrounded by the inscription above and date below.

The Seymour Unicorn standing opposite the Lion of England at the front of the Moat Bridge at Hampton Court Palace, this symbol of purity and fertility is the chief supporter of Jane Seymour, which was given to her by her husband, Henry VIII, as a gift.

The Seymour Unicorn has the body of a horse, the tail of a lion, the cloven hooves and beard of a goat, and a spiralled horn on its forehead. It wears a royal coronet and is gorged with a garland of white daisies and red roses. This royal coronet and wreath of flowers differentiate the Seymour Unicorn from the Unicorn of Scotland. Many believed that unicorns were wild creatures that needed to be tamed, hence the frequent depiction of the animal collared and chained.

The arms of Henry VIII’s third wife features Jane Seymour’s arms of augmentation, the Seymour wings in lure, the Beauchamp and Hacche, the shield of Sturmy, the MacWilliams shield and the Coker shield. Jane Seymour would have inherited these inclusions to her Coat of Arms through her Seymour ancestry.

Engraver: David Lawrence