CNG 103, Lot: 1228. Estimate $300. Sold for $575. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SCOTLAND. Mary, with Francis. 1542-1567. BI Twelvepenny groat – ‘Nonsunt’ (21mm, 1.37 g, 3h). Dated 1559. Crowned FM monogram; dolphin facing left and thistle, each crowned, flanking / IAM · NON/SVNT · DVO/SED · VNA/· CARO · in four lines on quadrate titulus; cross above; Cross Lorraine to left and right; below, date flanked by pellets. Burns 8 (fig. 891); SCBI 35 (Ashmolean & Hunterian), 1107 (same dies); SCBC 5448. VF, toned, a couple of minor marks under tone on slightly double struck obverse, struck on slightly ragged flan. Rare variety with dolphin left and a choice example of this normally quite billon issue.

From the Arthur M. Fitts III Collection.