SCOTLAND. James IV. 1488-1513. AV Half Unicorn (20mm, 1.93 g, 4h). Type I. Edimburgh mint; im: lis. (lis) IΛCOBVS : DЄI : GRΛCIΛ : RЄX : SCOTO (broken star stops), unicorn standing left, holding coat-of-arms, crown around neck / (lis) ЄXVRGΛT : DS : ЄT : DISIPЄnT : InIII : (broken star stops), large twelve-rayed star over cross fleurée. Murray,
Early type Ie; Burns 3 (fig. 633; same rev. die; James III); SCBI 35 (Ashmolean & Hunterian), 836 (same dies); SCBC 5320. Slightly double struck. Good VF. An excellent example struck on a full, round flan. Very rare thus.
Ex St. James’s 13 (6 May 2010), lot 849; M. Glass (Spink Numismatic Circular CXV.2 [April 2007]), no. SC0557; Strauss (Sotheby’s, 26 May 1994), lot 110; R.C. Lockett (Glendining, 18 June 1957), lot 230; R.W. Cochran-Patrick (Sotheby & Co., 30 March 1936), lot 41.
