The Earliest Copper Issue of the British Isles

525041.

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SCOTLAND. James III. 1460-1488. CU Farthing (12mm, 0.43 g, 2h). Type II. Edinburgh mint. Crown / Saltire cross; small saltires flanking. Burns 1 (fig. 560); SCBI 35 (Ashmolean & Hunterian) 804; SCBC 5305. Attractive green surfaces. Good Fine. Very rare.

This important Scottish issue was struck nearly a century and a half before the first English copper issues: the patent farthings of James I.