CNG 88, Lot: 2097. Estimate $200. Sold for $250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SCOTLAND. Charles II. 1649-1685. AR Half Merk (22mm, 3.25 g, 6h). First coinage, type IV. Edinburgh mint. Dated 1675. · CAROLVS · · II · DEI · GRA ·, laureate, draped, and armored bust right / · MAG BRI · FRA ET · HIB REX · 16 75, cruciform coats-of-arms around VI/8 (denomination); crowned monogram in angles. Burns 10 (fig. 1053 corr.); Murray, Scottish, 33a; SCBC 5617. Near VF, 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).