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Auction: 3017 - Ancient, English & Foreign Coins & Commemorative Medals
Lot: 153

†Scotland, James VIII ("The Older Pretender", 1688-1766), pattern Guinea, 11.107g., dated 1716, in gold, laureate draped bust right, rev. cruciform crowned shields, sceptres in angles (B.1095; S.5726; St.263), from a mount, repaired and cleaned, very fine, extremely rare Estimate £ 2,000-3,000 provenance: Dundee collection, Spink with Bowers and Ruddy, 19 February 1976, lot 345 Struck in 1828 by Matthew Young from original dies by Norbert Roettiers; no contemporary strikings were issued.

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