CNG 100, Lot: 1090. Estimate $4000. Sold for $6000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SCOTLAND. Mary. 1542-1567. AV Twenty-two Shillings (21.5mm, 2.59 g, 10h). Under James, Earl of Arran, regent. Edinburgh mint. Dated 1553. · MARIA · D · G · R · SCOTORVM, crowned coat-of-arms; I G flanking / DILIGITE :· IVSTICIAM · 1553, crowned monogram; cinquefoils flanking. Murray, 1553 dies B2c/2(1); Burns 4 (fig. 817); SCBI 58 (Edinburgh) 257 (same rev. die); SCBC 5396. VF, toned, tiny edge split.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Stack’s (29 April 1987), lot 1869.