SCOTLAND. Charles I. 1625-1649. AR Twelve Shillings (31mm, 5.84 g, 6h). Third coinage, Briot’s issue. Edinburgh mint. Struck 1637-1642. EF.

The Geoffrey Cope Collection of British Coins – Part III
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Scotland & Ireland, Silver

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SCOTLAND. Charles I. 1625-1649. AR Twelve Shillings (31mm, 5.84 g, 6h). Third coinage, Briot’s issue. Edinburgh mint. Struck 1637-1642. Crowned, draped, and mantled bust left; XII (denomination) to right, в to lower right / Crowned coat-of-arms; crowned C R across field; в to upper left. Burns 7 (fig. 1007; same dies); SCBI 35 (Ashmolean & Hunterian), 1430-2 (same dies); SCBC 5558. Toned, slight adjustment marks on obverse. EF. This issue by Briot arguably has the finest portrait of Charles I on a currency coin.

From the Geoffrey Cope Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group inventory 915506 (January 2012); Patrick Finn FPL 14 (1998), no. 426; Dundee Collection (Bowers & Ruddy, 19 February 1976), lot 301.


Closing Date and Time: 22 May 2025 at 11:18:20 ET.

Presented in association with Numismatica Ars Classica NAC AG and Numismatica Genevensis SA.

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