A Collection of Scottish Coins The Property of a Gentleman (Part II)

James II (1437-1460), Second coinage, Second issue, Groat, type I/II mule, Edinburgh, mm. cross pattée, tressure of nine arcs, trefoils on some cusps, nothing in spandrels, no additional marks, reads iacobvs and gra, legend ends scotor’, rev. crown in first and third, three pellets and annulet in second and fourth quarters, nothing in centre of cross, small rosette stops on obv., none on rev., 3.44g/2h (SCBI 35, 703, SCBI 72, 645-7 and B 11, fig. 524, same obv. die; S 5233). Very fine but obverse scored, extremely rare £600-£800

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Scottish Coins, the Property of a Gentleman.

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Mrs Joan E.L. Murray Collection, Baldwin Auction 26, 9 May 2001, lot 1915; bt Spink August 2001

No example in Richardson or Lockett; there are however four specimens in the NMS Collection. The vendor states ‘This is the only example from this obverse die that I have seen for sale in the last fifty years’.