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Auction: 24006 - British and World Coins
Lot: 478

Scotland, Mary I (1542-1567), First Period, Regency of James, Earl of Arran, Half-Lion of 22-Shillings, 1553, Type I, Edinburgh, MARIA • D • G • R • SCOTORVM, with inner circles, crowned shield dividing I-G, rev. DILIGITE IVSTICIAM, no stops, with inner circles, crowned monogram flanked by two cinquefoils, 2.52g [38.89grns], 6h (SCBI 35 [Ashmolean & Hunterian, 985-989; S.5396), with a pleasing golden-red tone, struck on a neat round flan, about extremely fine and scarce

Provenance

St. James's, Auction 17, 24 May 2011, lot 304*

DNW, 28 September 2006, lot 954

S. P. Fay, 'Dundee' Collection of Scottish Coins, Bowers & Ruddy/Spink [Los Angeles], 19 February 1976, lot 118

W. C. Hazlitt, Sotheby's, 5-15 July 1909, lot 1196


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Estimate
£8,000 to £12,000

Starting price
£6500