365, Lot: 549. Estimate $100. Sold for $170. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SCOTLAND. Alexander III. 1249-1286. AR Penny (19mm, 1.45 g, 11h). First coinage, type III. Aberdeen mint; Alex, moneyer. Struck 1250-circa 1280. Crowned bust left; cross-tipped scepter before / ALEX ON ABERD, voided long cross; star in each angle. Burns 47 (fig. 135); SCBI 35 (Ashmolean & Hunterian), 97; SCBC 5043. VF, toned, some roughness and wavy flan. Nice portrait.