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Auction: 6029 - The Lucien LaRiviere Collection - Scottish Coins & Medals
Lot: 178

x James VI, Forty Shillings (official wt 471 1/6 gr. = 30.53g.), 1582, 30.09g., crowned half length figure of the king in armour to left, holding sword in right hand, rev. crowned shield dividing I-R and, below, mark of value XL-S (B. 1, fig. 931; S. 5486), a magnificent coin, deeply and attractively toned, with a crisply struck portrait, almost extremely fine, possibly the finest known example of this famous and extremely rare denomination Estimate £ 15,000-20,000provenance: J. Wingate, Sotheby, 29 November 1875, lot 292 Murdoch, part II, Sotheby, 11-13 May 1903, lot 253 Roth, part II, Sotheby, 14-17 October 1918, lot 382 R.C. Lockett, Glendining, 18-19 June 1957, 376 Mallison, Spink auction 39, 6 December 1984, lot 133

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