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| + | * [[Scotland 1681 2 merks|1681 2 merks]] | ||
* [[Scotland 1682 merk|1682 merk]] | * [[Scotland 1682 merk|1682 merk]] | ||
* [[Scotland 1682 4 merks Dav-3787|1682 4 merks]] | * [[Scotland 1682 4 merks Dav-3787|1682 4 merks]] | ||
Latest revision as of 13:51, 13 February 2025
This specimen was lot 46026 in Stack's Bowers ANA sale (Costa Mesa, CA, August 2021), where it sold for $240. The catalog description[1] noted, "SCOTLAND. 1/4 Dollar (Merk), 1680. Edinburgh Mint; mm: F. Charles II. NGC VF-30. Second Coinage. Well centered on both sides with pleasing golden-grey tone. Old scratches on the obverse have long blended into the complexion. Attractive and glossy. From the Loch Ness Collection." A merk was originally forty shillings Scots in the sixteenth century. Both the merk and the Scots shilling shrank in the intervening years and this merk appears to have traded for 13 shillings and five pence, or a little more than an English shilling. The exchange rate between Scottish and English coinage varied but during this reign, 60 shillings = one English crown. This type was struck 1676, 1679-82.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 6.66 g, 0.917 fine silver; this specimen 6.33 g.
Catalog reference: S-5620; KM-110.1.
- 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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