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Auction: 26022 - The Hambleden Hoard: The Most Important Trove of Black Death Coins Ever Found
Lot: 1311

Scotland, Alexander III (1249-1286), Second Coinage, 'Cross and Mullets' Penny, c. 1280-1286, Class Be, Berwick-upon-Tweed [?], ALEXANDER DEI GRA, smaller crowned bust left, sceptre before, rev. REX SCOTORVM + composite S, long cross and pierced mullets of 24 points in angles, 1.351g [20.85grns], 5h, m.m. cross potent (Site Reference [RA 46]; Burns 16, fig. 143 [Obverse]; SCBI 35 [Ashmolean], 181 same dies; Middridge Hoard [1974], lot 296 same dies; Spink 5052), superficial excavation marks, otherwise attractively field toned on a full round planchet, a pleasing very fine, scarce

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Estimate
£100 to £200

Starting price
£100