Countermarked Mary Portrait Testoon

CNG 105, Lot: 1234. Estimate $1000. Sold for $3750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SCOTLAND. James VI. 1567-1625. AR Testoon (30mm, 5.66 g, 11h). Revaluation of 1578 on a Third period issue of Mary. Edinburgh mint. Dated 1561. Bust left; date in tabula ansata below; c/m: crowned thistle / Crowned coat-of-arms; crowned M across fields. For host coin: Burns 4 (Fig. 897); SCBI 35 (Ashmolean & Hunterian) 1111-2; SCBC 5422. For c/m: SCBC, vol. 2, p. 76. Host coin Fair, date and head clear, countermark VF.