365, Lot: 550. Estimate $500. Sold for $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SCOTLAND, Dunkeld. Alexander III. 1249-1286. AR Penny (18mm, 1.37 g, 3h). First coinage, type VII. Edinburgh mint; Alexander, moneyer. Struck 1250-circa 1280. Crowned bust right; cross-tipped scepter before / ALЄ +’· O N · Є D(ЄN), voided long cross, with star in each angle. Burns 64d (fig. 101A); SCBI 35 (Ashmolean & Hunterian), 150; SCBC 5047. VF, toned. Well centered and struck.

From the Keith Smalley Collection. Ex Dix, Noonan, and Web (10 December 2003), lot 335; Gilbert C. Drabble Collection (4 July 1939), lot 790; Sheriff T. McKenzie Collection (Sotheby’s, 21 February 1921), lot 168.