Ex Lockett Collection

261, Lot: 479. Estimate $100. Sold for $140. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SCOTLAND. Charles II. 1649-1685. AR Half Merk (22mm, 3.05 g, 12h). First coinage. Edinburgh mint. Dated 1675. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right; F below / Crowned cruciform coat of arms; crossed C’s in quarters, VI/ 8 in center. Burns 9; SCBI 35 (Ashmolean & Hunterian) 1606-7; SCBC 5616. Near VF, toned.

Ex M.G. Linger Collection. Ex Clonterbrook Trust Collection (Glendining, 7 June 1974), lot 345 (part of); Richard Cyril Lockett Collection (Part XI, Glendining, 26 October 1960), lot 957 (part of).