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

James V (1513-1542), Second coinage, Groat, Holyrood Abbey mint, type IIa (i), bust right with wide-collared mantle and single-arched crown, twelve jewels to band, annulet above r of gra, rev. shield with angled and pointed base, cross-ends A, reads edinbvrgi, double annulet stops both sides, 2.59g/9h (SCBI 35, 916, same obv. die; SCBI 58, 53; SCBI 71, 358; B 19, fig. 720, same obv. die; S 5377, this coin illustrated). Small metal flaw on shoulder, a few light surface marks, otherwise good very fine or better on a full flan, extremely rare thus £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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H.A. Parsons Collection, Part II, Glendining Auction, 11-13 May 1954, lot 729; R. Carlyon-Britton Collection; J.K.R. Murray Collection, Spink Auction 57, 29 April 1987, lot 172; L.M. LaRiviere Collection, Spink Auction 179, 29 March 2006, lot 89; Spink Auction 230, 15 July 2015, lot 455

Stevenson has suggested that that the Groats of type II resulted from Achesoun’s second contract in November 1526. The portrait used in the early stages of the groat coinage is notable in that it can bear no possible resemblance to the King himself, who was only 14 years old at the time.