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Auction: 6018 - The Coinex Sale
Lot: 478

James III (1460-88), Groat (12d.), 2.48g, Berwick, i.m. cross pattée, facing bust in tressure of nine arcs with crown of five tall fleurs, trefoils on cusps, +iacobvs:d:gra:rex:scotorvm:z:, rev. mullets of six points and three pellets in alternate angles, double saltire stops both sides, +dns:p/tector/ms:z:l/iberav, +vil/la:b/erw/icih, (B.16, fig.589, same dies; SCBI 35, 760, same dies; S.5276), obverse a little smoothed on highlights, about very fine, very rare Estimate £ 850-950provenance Walters collection, part II, Sotheby, 24 October 1932 Spink N.Circ. August-September 1936, no. 54516 Wallworth collection, Glendining, 17 December 1942, lot 10, part Davidson collection, DNW Auction 60, 9 December 2003, lot 423

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