CNG 100, Lot: 2342. Estimate $500. Sold for $320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SCOTLAND. Charles I. 1625-1649. AR Half Merk (24mm, 3.37 g, 7h). Third (Briot’s) coinage. Edinburgh mint. Struck 1637-1642. CAR · D : G · SCOT · ANG · FR · ET · HIB · R ·, crowned and armored bust left; ·VI·/8 behind, в below / CHRISTO · AVSPICE · REGNO ·, crowned coat-of-arms; crowned C R flanking. Burns 11 (fig. 1010 [same rev. die as illustration]); SCBI 35 (Ashmolean & Hunterian), 1439 (same dies); SCBC 5573. Good VF, toned, minor haymarking.

Ex CNG Inventory 942458 (January 2013); Michael and Elizabeth Stewart Collection (Dix, Noonan, Webb 104, 5 December 2012), lot 695; J. K. R. Murray Collection (Spink 57, 29 April 1987), lot 347.