CNG 88, Lot: 2090. Estimate $200. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SCOTLAND. Charles II. 1649-1685. AR Half Merk (22mm, 2.98 g, 3h). First coinage, type II. Edinburgh mint. Dated 1671. CAROLVS · II · DEI · GRA ·, laureate, draped, and armored bust right; thistle below / · MAG BRI · FRA ET · HIB REX · 16 71, cruciform coats-of-arms around VI/8 (denomination); crowned monogram in angles. Burns 6 (fig. 1053 corr.); Murray, Scottish, 30; SCBC 5614. Good Fine, toned.

Ex M. G. Linger Collection; Clonterbrook Trust Collection (Glendining, 7 June 1974), lot 345 (part of); Richard Cyril Lockett Collection (Part XI, Glendining, 26 October 1960), lot 957 (part of); J. G. Murdoch Collection (Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 16 December 1904), lot 1075 (part of).