A Collection of Scottish Coins, the Property of a Gentleman (Part I)

Alexander III (1249-1286), First coinage, Sterling, type VI, Kinghorn, Wilam, wil am· on· kin, 1.31g/3h (Holmes dies 3/C; cf. SCBI 35, 144; cf. Lockett 88; B –, fig. 93A, same obv. die; S 5046). Very fine, toned, excessively rare and numismatically important £1,200-£1,500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Scottish Coins, the Property of a Gentleman.

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bt Spink February 1982

This is the coin that provided the previously undiscovered obverse die link between Walter and Wilam at ‘Kin’ - confirming that there was no Renfrew mint. Burns originally suggested that Walter struck coins at Renfrew and Wilam at Kinghorn and, despite an article to the contrary by H.J. Dakers in 1936, this view persisted until the year 2000, mainly due to the lack of any die link between the two moneyers. This coin links a class VI obverse, which is normally found paired with a class III Walter reverse, to a reverse die in the name of Wilam. See R.W. Kirton and Lord Stewartby, ‘The Long Voided Cross Sterlings of Kinghorn’, Numismatic Chronicle, 2000, pp.304ff.