SCOTLAND. James I. 1406-1437. AV Demy (24mm, 3.24 g, 6h). Type II. Edinburgh mint; im: crown/cross pattée. (crown) · I·ΛCOBVS (lis) DЄ(lis)I GRΛCIΛ RЄX SC (lis), coat-of-arms within lozenge / + SΛLVVm : FΛC · POPVLVm (lis) · TVVm DnЄ (lis) · (triple saltire and saltire stops), St. Andrew’s Cross, flanked by lis to left and right; all within tressure of six arches, arches terminating in lis, quatrefoils with open center in spandrels; border of annulets (’chain mail’). Burns 6b (fig. 437C; same dies); SCBI 35 (Ashmolean & Hunterian) –; SCBC 5191. Toned. VF. Very rare subtype with ‘chain link’ inner circle on reverse.
Ex R. Wilson (Spink 189, 27 June 2007), lot 123.
