Auction Catalogue

30 September 2009

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Important British and World Coinsxx

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 3993

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30 September 2009

Hammer Price:
£340

David II (1329-1371), Second coinage, Groat, class C, Edinburgh, mm. cross pattée, older bust with aquiline nose, tressure of six arcs, nothing in spandrels, double crosslet stops, double crosslet at end of legend, rev. d in second quarter, 4.36g/9h (cf. SCBI 35, 386; B 26, fig. 288; S 5099). Flat in places, otherwise about very fine, rare
£200-250

Provenance: B. Roth Collection, Part I, Sotheby Auction, 19-20 July 1917, lot 340 (part); bt Baldwin September 1988