CNG 102, Lot: 1536. Estimate $10000. Sold for $11000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SCOTLAND. James III. 1460-1488. AV Unicorn (25mm, 3.83 g, 8h). Edinburgh mint; im: cross fleury/lis. Struck 1484-1488. (cross fleurée) ЄXVRGΛT DЄ ЄЄT DISIPЄNT NImICI Є (sic), unicorn standing left, holding coat-of-arms, crown around neck; double five-rayed stellate stops / (lis) ЄXVRGΛT DS ЄT DISIPЄT IIImIЄ ЄS(sic), large twelve-rayed star over cross fleurée; double five-rayed stellate stops. Cf. Burns 9 (Fig. 631 – for type); cf. SCBI 35 (Ashmolean & Hunterian), 739 (same); SCBC 5262. VF, toned. Very rare and with an excellent pedigree.

From the LVL Collection. Ex Heritage 3030 (6 January 2014), lot 25047 (where it realized $14,000); Horace Hird Collection (Glendining, 6 March 1974), lot 44; Richard Cyril Lockett Collection (Scottish – Part II, Glendining’s, 26 October 1960), lot 859; Thomas Bearman Collection (purchased en bloc by Baldwin’s, circa 1922); John Gloag Murdoch Collection (Part II, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 11 May 1903), lot 142.