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Auction: 3017 - Ancient, English & Foreign Coins & Commemorative Medals
Lot: 122

Robert III, Groat, heavy coinage, first issue, Edinburgh, tressure of nine arcs, three large pellets at cusps, rev. villa edinbvrgh, lis stops, none before robertvs (B.14 var., fig.357 var.; S.5164B), a full round coin, very fine or better, a very rare variety, extremely so with lis stops Estimate £ 500-600 provenance: Fortrose Hoard 'Sheriff' Mackenzie H A Parsons, Glendining, 11 May 1954, lot 716 (part) Mrs Joan E L Murray, Baldwin's Auctions 26, 9 May 2001, lot 1883

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