Scotland, ANGUS, Dundee, James Wright Jr, Shilling, 1797, in silver-gilt, ancient citadel, rev. Highlander, edge plain, 6.09g/12h (DH 2, not listed in this metal). Minor hairlines, otherwise extremely fine and brilliant, extremely rare
£700-1,000

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Late Robinson S. Brown Jr Collection.

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Provenance: F.S. Cokayne Collection; with Spink; R.S. Brown Collection, Part IV, DNW Auction T12, 3 October 2012 [from J. Spingarn April 1999, $6,000], recté silver-gilt.

Sold with a related letter from the Goldsmiths’ Company, 17 October 2012, detailing the results of X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy on the coin, which was acquired by Cokayne as gold and described as such on prior occasions