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Auction: 6018 - The Coinex Sale
Lot: 474

James I (1406-37), Groat (6d.), 1.97g, Linlithgow, crowned facing bust in tressure of eight arcs, sceptre to left, lis on neck, lis to left of neck and letter I to right, saltires on shoulders, lis between the words of the legend, +iacobvs dei tracia rex sco rev. plain cross, lis in second and third and three pellets in first and fourth quarters, extra pellet in third quarter, the three pellets in the fourth quarter struck over a lis, +dns p/tecoto/rms l/ibator/, vill/a de/linl/ithc, (B.30, fig.474; S.5199), very fine, very rare Estimate £ 800-900provenance Carfrae collection, Chapman (Edinburgh) 14 March 1883, lot 116 Richardson collection, purchased en bloc by Murdoch, c. 1895 Murdoch collection, Sotheby, 11 May 1903, lot 93 Roth collection, Sotheby, 14 October 1918, lot 350 Virgil Brand collection, dispersed from 1932 Bonham Auction 31, 195, 22 May 2002, lot 516

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