Scotland 1695 5 shillings

Stack's Bowers 2021 ANA sale, lot 46036

photo courtesy Stack's Bowers LLC

This specimen was lot 46036 in Stack's Bowers ANA sale (Costa Mesa, CA, August 2021), where it sold for $90. The catalog description^[1] noted, "SCOTLAND. 5 Shillings, 1695. Edinburgh Mint. William II. NGC F-12. Well centered with faint steel-blue and golden iridescence. Old scratches and marks noted under scrutiny, but nicely glossed to the naked eye. From the Loch Ness Collection." This type, struck 1695-1700, is roughly equal to a British sixpence. The Act of Union in 1707 ended the Scottish coinage. This example seems quite underweight.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 2.99 g, 0.917 fine silver, 19 mm diameter; this specimen 2.16 g.

Catalog reference: S-5688; KM-140.

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, The August 2021 ANA sale: World and Ancient Coins, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2021.

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