Scotland (1637-42)-B 20 pence

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Stack's Bowers 2024 NYINC sale, lot 58396
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Stack's Bowers October 2025 Collectors Choice sale, lot 76780. "B" below the bust
"B" to the left of the crown

The first specimen was lot 58396 in Stack's Bowers NYINC sale (New York, January 2024), where it sold for $432. The catalog description[1] noted, "SCOTLAND. 20 Pence, ND (1637-42). Edinburgh Mint. Charles I. NGC AU-58. Third coinage. Briot's milled issue, with "B" below portrait." Briot and Falconer both struck Scottish coins for Charles I and so some twenty pence bear a "B" (shown here), an "F" or both. This coin would have traded for an English silver penny. Scottish coinage ended in 1707 with the Act of Union. The second specimen was lot 76780 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, September 2025), where it sold for $192. The catalog description[2] noted, "SCOTLAND. 20 Pence, ND (1637-42). Edinburgh Mint. Charles I. NGC AU-55."

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: silver. The second specimen is 0.83 g.

Catalog reference: S-5589, KM-73?. the second specimen S-5581; KM-75.

Source:

  • Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
  • Lobel, Richard, Mark Davidson, Allan Hailstone and Eleni Calligas, Coincraft's Standard Catalogue of the Coins of Scotland, Ireland, Channel Islands & Isle of Man, London: Coincraft, 1999.
  • Skingley, Philip, ed., Standard Catalogue of British Coins: Coins of Scotland, Ireland and the Islands (Jersey, Guernsey, Man & Lundy), Pre-Decimal Issues, 2nd edition, London: Spink & Son, 2003.
  • [1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, January 2024 NYINC Auction, featuring the Emilio M Ortiz Collection and a Symphony of Russian Rarities, the Rothschild-Piatigorsky Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2023.
  • [2]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, September 2025 World Collectors Choice Online Auction, including Selections from the Richard Margolis Collection and Selections from the L.E. Bruun Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2025.

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