CNG 102, Lot: 1537. Estimate $3000. Sold for $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SCOTLAND. James IV. 1488-1513. AV Half Unicorn (19mm, 1.90 g, 10h). Type I. Edinburgh mint; im: lis. (lis) IΛCOBVS DЄI GRΛCIΛ RЄX SCOTOR, unicorn standing left, holding coat-of-arms, crown around neck / (lis) ЄXVRGΛT DЄS ЄT DISIPЄNT NImIC (sic), large twelve-rayed star over cross fleurée; star stops. Burns –; cf. SCBI 35 (Ashmolean & Hunterian), 830 (for type); SCBC 5321; DNW 59, lot 985 = Baldwin’s 26, lot 1967 (same rev. die). VF, toned. Rare.

From the LVL Collection. Ex Eric P. Newman Collection (Part III, Heritage, 14 January 2014), lot 30245 (where it realized $4250); Green Estate Partnership (Eric P. Newman/Burdette G. Johnson); Colonel Edward Howland Robinson Green Collection.