Moneyer Bonagius

429, Lot: 560. Estimate $300. Sold for $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SCOTLAND. Robert II. 1371-1390. AR Groat (28.5mm, 3.67 g, 1h). Perth mint; Bonagius, moneyer. Crowned bust left; scepter to left, star at base; B behind head; all within tressure of arches with trefoils in spandrels / Long cross pattée; mullets in quarters. SCBI 35 (Ashmolean & Hunterian), –; SCBC 5137. VF, toned, area of flat strike. Very rare.

From the Dr. William E. Triest Collection. Ex Baldwin’s 26 (9 May 2001), lot 1870.