318, Lot: 1108. Estimate $150. Sold for $240. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SCOTLAND. David II. 1329-1371. AR Groat (27mm, 3.97 g, 1h). Second Coinage (Stewart group A). Edinburgh mint. Struck 1357-1367. Crowned bust left; scepter before; all within tressure of seven arches / Long cross pattée with voided mullets in angles. Burns 15/16 (obv. die of 16, rev. die of 15); SCBI 35 (Ashmolean & Hunterian) 367/376 (obv.die of 376 (Aberdeen), rev. die of 367); SCBC 5091. VF, toned, struck from a worn obverse die.
This obverse die is recorded on coins from both Edinburgh and Aberdeen.