Ex Hird Collection

CNG 100, Lot: 1101. Estimate $7500. Sold for $15000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SCOTLAND. James VIII. Pretender, 1688-1766. Pattern AV Guinea (27mm, 11.03 g, 5h). Dies by J. Roettiers. Dated 1716 (Struck 1828 by Matthew Young). IACOBVS · III · DEI · GRATIA, laureate and draped bust right / SCO AN · FRA ET · HIB REX · 17 16 ·, crowned cruciform coats-of-arms with thistle at center; scepters in angles. Burns 2 (fig. 1095); SCBI 35 (Ashmolean & Hunterian) –; SCBC 5726. Superb EF, lustrous. Extremely rare.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Spink 46 (9 October 1985), lot 845; H. Hird Collection (Glendining, 6 March 1974), lot 135.