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Auction: 6029 - The Lucien LaRiviere Collection - Scottish Coins & Medals
Lot: 106

x Mary, Testoon (5s. 0d., official weight 94 1/4 gr. = 6.11g., 0.916 fine), 1556, type IIIa, 6.07g., crowned shield dividing M – R, annulet below, rev. cross potent, cross in each angle, legend IN VIRTVTE TVA LIBERA ME; countermarked with a crowned thistle in 1578 to revalue the coin to 7s. 4d (B. 7, fig. 786; St. 175; S. 5404 and p. 70-71), very fine Estimate £ 400-500provenance: Christie´s, 10 April 1979, lot 202

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