Ex LaRiviere Collection

CNG 103, Lot: 1222. Estimate $2000. Sold for $2750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SCOTLAND. James III. 1460-1488. AR Groat (25mm, 2.58 g, 3h). Light issue. Berwick mint. Struck circa 1467. Crowned facing bust; ˶ ǹ above shoulders / Long cross fourchée, with trefoil with annulet and voided mullet alternating in angles. Burns 5a (fig. 570); SCBI 35 (Ashmolean & Hunterian) 746 (same dies); SCBC 5266. VF, toned. Very rare.

From the Arthur M. Fitts III Collection. Ex Triton XV (3 January 2012), lot 1942; Lucien LaRiviere Collection (Spink 179, 29 March 2006), lot 63; Finn FPL 15 (8 April 2000), no. 384; Stack’s (3 December 1997), lot 1515.