CNG 109, Lot: 1005. Estimate $2000. Sold for $2100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SCOTLAND. James II. 1437-1460. AV Demy (25mm, 3.33 g, 9h). First coinage, Type IVb/IVa mule. Edinburgh mint; im: crown/cross pattée. Struck 1437-1451. (crown) IΛCOBVS DЄI GRΛCIΛ RЄX SC (double saltire stops), coat-of-arms within lozenge / + SΛLVm FΛC POPVLVm TVVm DIIЄ (lis) (double annulet stops), St. Andrew’s Cross, flanked by lis to left and right, pellet below, cross below right lis; all on tressure of six arches, each arch ending in lis; in each external void, quatrefoil with large central pellet. Cf. Burns 7 and fig. 513 (for type); SCBC 5219/5217 (obv./rev.). VF, worn obverse die. Rare mule.

From the Dr. William E. Triest Collection.