Ex Mallinson Collection

CNG 100, Lot: 1092. Estimate $30000. Sold for $47500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SCOTLAND. James VI. 1567-1625. AV Twenty Pounds (40mm, 29.93 g, 4h). Second coinage. Edinburgh mint. Dated 1576. · IACOBVS · 6 · DEI · GRA · REX · SCOTOR ·, crowned half-length bust right, wearing ruff, holding sword over shoulder and olive branch; in tablet below, IN · VTRVNQVE/ · PARATVS ·/ · 1576 · / PARCERE SVBIECTIS · & DEBEILARE SVPERBOS, crowned coat-of-arms. Burns 1 var. (rev. legend stops); SCBI 58 (Edinburgh) 1234-6 (same dies); SCBC 5451. VF, toned, has been made round. Very rare – only seven of this date thought to be in private hands.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Rev. Arnold Mallinson Collection (Spink 39, 6 December 1984), lot 130; Glendining (20 October 1948), lot 35.

The Twenty Pound piece of James VI is the heaviest hammered gold coin struck in the British Isles.