CNG 109, Lot: 1058. Estimate $2500. Sold for $2300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SCOTLAND, Stuart. James VII, as James II of England. 1685-1689. Sixty shillings (41.5mm, 26.34 g, 6h). Matthew Young restrike. Dies by J. Roettiers. Dated 1688, but struck 1828. IACOBVS · II · DEI · GRATIA ·, laureate and draped bust right; 60 below / · MAG · BR · FRA ET · HIB · REX · 16 88, crowned coat-of-arms within garter of the Order of the Thistle. Burns 1 and fig. 1064; SCBC 5634. EF, toned, edge marks.

From the Dr. William E. Triest Collection, purchased from Colin Cooke.

Although the dies were engraved in 1688 by Roettiers, no specimens are known to have been struck at that time. All extant examples were struck by the celebrated coin dealer Matthew Young in 1828. Young presented the dies to the British Museum in 1829.