383, Lot: 789. Estimate $150. Sold for $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SCOTLAND. James I. 1406-1437. AR Groat (24mm, 2.37 g, 7h). First fleur-de-lis issue. Edinburgh mint. Crowned facing bust; lis-tipped scepter and saltire to left, I to right; lis and two saltires on breast; all within tressure of seven arches with lis at cusps / Long cross pattée; trefoils with additional pellets in first and fourth quarter, lis in second, lis flanked by pellet and saltire in third. Burns 12 (fig. 440); cf. SCBI 35 (Ashmolean & Hunterian), 644 (for type); SCBC 5195. Fine, toned, small edge split.

From the Arthur M. Fitts III Collection.