CNG 102, Lot: 1552. Estimate $5000. Sold for $7500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SCOTLAND. Charles I. 1625-1649. AV Unite (37mm, 9.86 g, 6h). Third (Briot’s) coinage. Class I. Edinburgh mint; im: thistle and в/-. Struck 1637-1642. CAROLVS D G MAG BRITAN FRAN ET HIB REX, crowned and armored half-length bust right, holding scepter and orb; quadrate stops / HIS PRÆSVM VT PROSIM, crowned coat-of-arms; crowned C R above quadrate stop across fields; quadrate stops. Burns 4 (fig. 1033 – same dies); SCBI 35 (Ashmolean & Hunterian), 1397 (same dies); SCBC 5532. Good VF, attractively toned, usual flaw at bottom of bust. Very rare.

From the LVL Collection. Ex St. James’s 26 (5 March 2014), lot 73 (where it realized £4700); J.K.R. Murray Collection (Spink 57, 29 April 1987), lot 34; Sotheby & Co. (14 May 1968), lot 10.