Ex Argo, Ridgemount, and Murray, Collections,
and the Serooskerke Hoard

CNG 102, Lot: 1540. Estimate $3000. Sold for $4250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SCOTLAND. James VI. 1567-1625. AV Rider (28mm, 5.17 g, 11h). Seventh coinage. Edinburgh mint; im: quatrefoil. Dated 1594. (quatrefoil) · IACOBS · 6 · D · G · R · SCOTORVM ·, armored figure of James riding right on richly caparisoned horse, holding sword in raised hand; · 1594 · in exergue / (quatrefoil) · SPERO · MELIORA ·, crowned coat-of-arms. Gelder, Serooskerke, 78 (this coin); Burns 6 (fig. 954); SCBI 35 (Ashmolean & Hunterian), 1164 (same dies); SCBC 5458. Good VF, flan a little wavy.

From the LVL Collection. Ex Argo Collection (Stack’s Bowers & Ponterio 182, 10 January 2014), lot 569 (where ir realized $5000); Ridgemount Collection (Spink 69, 20 April 1989), lot 263; J.K.R. Murray Collection (Spink 57, 29 April 1987), lot 15; Serooskerke Coin Find (Schulman 244, 15 November 1966), lot 757; Serooskerke Hoard (the only Scottish coin in the hoard).