429, Lot: 642. Estimate $200. Sold for $380. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SCOTLAND. Charles I. 1625-1649. AR Half Merk (24mm, 3.15 g, 6h). Third coinage, Briot’s issue, type I. Edinburgh mint; im: B. Struck 1637-1642. Crowned, armored, and draped bust left; VI/8 (mark of value) behind / Crowned coat-of-arms; crowned C R above lozenges flanking. SCBI 35 (Ashmolean & Hunterian) 1441 (same obv. die); SCBC 5574. VF, toned.

From the Dr. William E. Triest Collection.