Scotland 1699 40 shillings

Stack's Bowers 2021 ANA sale, lot 46034

photo courtesy Stack's Bowers LLC

This specimen was lot 46034 in Stack's Bowers ANA sale (Costa Mesa, CA, August 2021), where it sold for $780. The catalog description^[1] noted, "SCOTLAND. 40 Shillings, 1699. Edinburgh Mint. William II. NGC VF-25. Glossy with dark tone and steely blue iridescence on the obverse. Well centered and evenly defined. From the Loch Ness Collection." This type, struck 1695-1700, is roughly equal to four English shillings. The Act of Union in 1707 ended the Scottish coinage.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 23.92 g, 0.917 fine silver.

Catalog reference: S-5684; KM-143.

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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