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Auction: 6018 - The Coinex Sale
Lot: 497

James VI, Sixteen-Shillings, 10.78g, 1581, crowned shield with arms of Scotland, rev. crowned thistle dividing i - r, nemo legend (B.1a, fig.930c, this specimen described on p. 364; SCBI 35, 1234: S.5842), evenly struck, very fine, very rare Estimate £ 3,500-4,000provenance Sutherland collection, puchased by the Faculty of Advocates, 1705 Faculty of Advocates duplicates, sold Dowell (Edinburgh), 22 April 1873, lot 115 Cochran Patrick collection, Sotheby, 30 March 1936, lot 276 J. K. R. Murray collection, Spink Auction 57, 29 April 1987, lot 272 LaRivière collection, Spink Auction 179, 29 March 2006, lot 174 (£4000).

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