Scotland 1575 1/2 mark

Ponterio sale 168, lot 50165

photo courtesy Stack's-Bowers LLC

This specimen was lot 50165 in Ponterio sale 168 (Philadelphia, August 2012), where it sold for $441. The catalog description^[1] noted, "SCOTLAND. Half Mark, 1575. NGC VF-25. James VI (1567-1625)."

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: silver.

Catalog reference: S-5478; C-SJ6HMK-015.

Source:

• 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]Ponterio, Richard, Ponterio sale 168: The Official ANA Auction, Irvine, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2012.

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