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Auction: 24004 - British and World Coins and Medals Spring Auction
Lot: 335

Scotland, James I (1406-1437), Demy [of 9-Shillings], Class I, Edinburgh, iacobvs : dei : gracia : rex : scoto, double saltire stops, rampant lion in lozenge left, rev. + salv.vm : fac : popvlvm : tvvm : dnb :, double saltire stops, saltire flanked by lis at centre of sexfoil, small voided quatrefoils in angles, i.m. crown, 3.23g [49.8grns], 9h (Burns 1a, fig. 424A; Spink 5190), striking crack following tail of lion, the surfaces bright, otherwise a bold fine, rare, with a solid pedigree

Provenance

The David Wolfson Collection

Purchased Spink, 7 June 1974

R C Lockett, Glendining, 18 June 1957, lot 823 [with lotting ticket]
Purchased Baldwin, £2.10.0 (with inventory ticket G11374, in hand of A H Baldwin)

T Bearman, collection dispersed by Baldwin, c. 1922 [with his ticket, stating: 'Bt of Spink & Son, Oct 10 1906']

J M Stobart, Christie, 18-19 May 1903, lot ? [Spink]


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Sold for
£3,200

Starting price
£500