An Exceptional Late Renaissance Portrait – From the LaRiviere Collection

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 1704. Estimate $7500.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $12000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SCOTLAND. James V. 1513-1542. AV Groat (2.61 g, 1h). Second coinage. Edinburgh mint. Struck 1526-1539. IΛCOBVS S DEI GRΛ REX SCOTOR, crowned bust right, crown with double arches; double annulet stops / VILLΛ EDINBRVGhX, pointed royal shield over cross fourchée; double annulet stops. Burns fig. 725; SCBI 35 (Ashmolean & Hunterian), 910-2; SCBC 5376. Superb EF, toned. An exceptional portrait.

Ex Lucien LaRiviere Collection (Spink 179, 29 March 2006), lot 88; Sotheby’s (13 February 1986), lot 254.