SCOTLAND. Alexander III. 1249-1286. AR Penny (18mm, 1.49 g, 6h). First coinage. Long Cross and Stars, type III. Edinburgh mint; Alexander, moneyer. Struck 1250-circa 1280. Crowned head left; scepter to left / (A)LE XO(N) ED EN, voided long cross; stars in quarters (4 stars of 6 points). Burns 65a (fig. 134A); SCBI 35 (Ashmolean & Hunterian), 112; SCBC 5043. Toned, struck slightly off centre. VF.
Ex W. N. Clarke Collection; Dix Noonan Webb 127 (8 December 2014), lot 2256; G. W. de Wit Collection (Part III, Künker 137, 11 March 2008), lot 3350 (part of); Elsen FPL 48b (1983), no. 84; 1908 Brussels Hoard.
