CNG 102, Lot: 1553. Estimate $5000. Sold for $7000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SCOTLAND. Charles I. 1625-1649. AV Half Unit – Double Crown (26mm, 4.98 g, 7h). Third (Briot’s) coinage. Class I. Edinburgh mint; im: в/-. Struck 1637-1642. CAR (lozenge) D : G (lozenge) MAG (lozenge) BRIT · FRAN · ET · HIB · REX, crowned, draped, and armored bust left / VNITA TVEMVR, crowned coat-of-arms; flanking shield, C R each with crown above and lozenge below; lozenge stops. Burns 5/6 (fig. 1034/1035 [for obv./rev. dies]); SCBI 35 (Ashmolean & Hunterian), 1398/1399 (for obv./rev. dies); SCBC 5534. Near EF, lightly toned, minor adjustment marks. Rare.

From the LVL Collection. Ex Eric P. Newman Collection (Part III, Heritage, 14 January 2014), lot 30252 (where it realized $7000); Green Estate Partnership (Eric P. Newman/Burdette G. Johnson); Colonel Edward Howland Robinson Green Collection; L. E. Bruun Collection (Part I, Sotheby & Co., 18 May 1925), lot 923.