CNG 102, Lot: 1535. Estimate $4000. Sold for $4000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SCOTLAND. James II. 1437-1460. AV Demy (23mm, 3.31 g, 12h). First coinage, Type IVb/a. Edinburgh mint; im: crown/cross pattée. Struck 1437-1451. (crown) IΛCOBVS DЄI GRACIA RЄX SC, coat-of-arms within ornate lozenge; double saltire stops / + · SAΛLVVm FΛC POPVLVm TVVm DIIЄ (lis), St. Andrew’s Cross, flanked by lis, within double linear six-arched stellate pattern, each arch ending in lis; quatrefoil with filled center in each external void; double annulet stops. Burns 6 (fig. 511); SCBI 35 (Ashmolean & Hunterian), 635 var. (rev. legend); cf. SCBC 5219/5217. Good VF. Rare.

From the LVL Collection. Ex CNG Inventory 974694 (April 2014); Eric P. Newman Collection (Part III, Heritage, 14 January 2014), lot 30243 (where it realized $4250); Green Estate Partnership (Eric P. Newman/Burdette G. Johnson); Colonel Edward Howland Robinson Green Collection.