Pedigreed Kinghorn Mint Penny

400769.

Sold For $1875

SCOTLAND. Alexander III. 1249-1286. AR Penny (19mm, 1.38 g, 3h). Class III. Kinghorn mint; Walter, moneyer. Struck 1250-circa 1280. ALЄXΛND(ЄR) RЄX, crowned bust left; cross-tipped scepter before / (WAL) T(ЄR) (OH)R IH, voided long cross, with star in each angle. Kirton & Stewart, Kinghorn dies C/b (this coin cited); Burns p. 147 (fig. 93A; same rev. die; Renfrew mint); SCBI 35 (Ashmolean & Hunterian 131-2 (same rev. die); SCBC 5043. VF, toned. Very rare.

Ex Jim Sazama Collection; Michael Anderson Collection (Spink 183, 26 September 2006), lot 454; Dr. James Davidson Collection (Dix, Noonan, & Webb 60, 9 December 2003), lot 345; Gilbert C. Drabble Collection (Glendining’s, Part I, 4 July 1939), lot 778; Brussels Hoard, 1908.