The crowned king stands under a simple canopy, with a ring or an orb in his left hand and a sceptre in his right. He is dressed in a green undergarment and pinkish fur-lined robe, and stands before a deep blue ground decorated with quatrefoil white flowers and intersected with an inscription in Lombardic capitals: S[anctus] EDVARDUS. The ring is a reference to a famous story in which the pious king gave his ring to a beggar, actually St John the Evangelist in disguise. The outer border is decorated with oak leaves and acorns on a ruby ground.
