Triton XVI, Lot: 1605. Estimate $1500. Sold for $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SCOTLAND. Charles I. 1625-1649. AR Twelve Shillings (31mm, 5.89 g, 6h). Third (Briot’s) coinage. Edinburgh mint. Struck 1637-1642. CAR · D : G · MAG · BRIT · FRAN · ET · HIB · REX ·, crowned, draped, and mantled bust left; XII behind, в to lower right / QVÆ · DEVS · CONIVNXIT · NEMO · SEPARET, crowned coat-of-arms; crowned C R across field; в to upper left. Burns fig. 1007; SCBI 35 (Ashmolean & Hunterian), 1430-2 (same dies); SCBC 5558. Superb EF, lightly toned with original luster, a few minor adjustment marks. This issue by Briot arguably has the finest portrait of Charles I on a currency coin.