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CNG 100, Lot: 1091. Estimate $7500.
Sold for $13000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SCOTLAND. Mary. 1542-1567. AV Three Pounds – Ryal (26.5mm, 7.51 g, 8h). First period. Portrait type. Edinburgh mint. Dated 1555. · MARIA · DEI · G · SCOTOR · REGINA (trefoil), bust left / · IVSTVS · FIDE VIVIT · 1555 ·, crowned coat-of-arms with rounded shield. Murray, 1555-8 13 (obv. die E); Burns 1-7 var. (legend stops); SCBI 35 (Ashmolean & Hunterian) 993 (same dies); SCBC 5397. VF, has been made round, minor marks. Rare, particularly with the rounded shield on reverse.


From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Rev. Arnold Mallinson Collection (Spink 39, 6 December 1984), lot 126.