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Revision as of 11:20, 13 February 2025

Stack's Bowers 2021 ANA sale, lot 41537
photo courtesy Stack's Bowers LLC

This specimen was lot 41537 in Stack's Bowers ANA sale (Costa Mesa, CA, August 2021), where it sold for $2,640. The catalog description[1] noted,

"SCOTLAND. 30 Shillings (1/2 Crown), ND (1637-42). Edinburgh Mint; mm: B and flower/B and thistle. Charles I. NGC EF-45. Third Coinage, Briot's issue. Pleasing olive-grey tone with steel-blue shades near the borders. Drawn slightly toward 5 o'clock on the obverse though the legends remain intact throughout. Well defined and free of any notable blemishes. From the Loch Ness Collection."

This thirty shillings would have traded for half an English crown.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: silver, this specimen 14.82 g.

Catalog reference: S-5553; KM-87; Burns-6 (fig. 1006).

Source:

  • Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • [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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