Auction: 7018 - Dr R Ferrari English Crowns, R Wilson Scottish Coins, A Louise Irish Coins, K MacKenzie Ottoman Coins & Other Propertie
Lot: 138
James V, second coinage, 1526-1539, Groat, 2.70g., Type IVa-1, Edinburgh, bust crowned right, five pellets on crown, no trefoil in field behind head, trefoil stops, rev. oppidv edinbvrgi, no serifs to the I, shield on cross fourchée (St.150; S.5379), reverse well struck, weakness in places in obverse legends and on kings nose, good very fine, extremely rare Estimate £ 450-550 provenance P Finn, 2000, list 18, no. 361 Struck from the same dies as the Murray collection example, sold in Spink auction 57, 20 April 1987, lot 177.
Sold for
£520