Ex Dundee Collection

CNG 100, Lot: 1084. Estimate $5000. Sold for $8500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SCOTLAND. James III. 1460-1488. AV Rider (24mm, 5.04 g, 12h). Type I. Edinburgh mint. Struck 1475-1483. IΛCOBVS : DЄI · GR Λ: R ЄX SCOTOR (saltire and double saltire stops), armored figure of James on horseback, holding sword / SALVVm FAC POP VLVm TV Vm DnЄ, crowned coat-of-arms over long cross pattée. Burns 2 (fig. 600; same dies); SCBI 35 (Ashmolean & Hunterian) 730 (same dies); SCBC 5256. VF, toned. Well struck.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Classical Numismatic Auctions XXIII (13 October 1992), lot 625; Dundee Collection (Spink and Bowers & Ruddy, 19 February 1976), lot 74.