A Collection of Scottish Coins, the Property of a Gentleman

David II (1329-1371), Second coinage, Class A, Groat, class A7, Edinburgh, mm. cross pattée, small young bust, tressure of six arcs, nothing in spandrels, crosslet stops, five-pointed star (unpierced) after scotorvm, crosslet after villa, 4.58g/5h (SCBI 35, 370 same dies; B 12, fig. 259, same dies; S 5091). Very fine or better, some small surface marks, dark tone £240-£300

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

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R.A. Macpherson Collection, DNW Auction 83, 30 September 2009, lot 3987 [from Baldwin March 1982]

On this type, the crosslet stops continue but the tressure is much less sharply drawn. Burns figs. 254 and 255, used at Aberdeen are very similar to this Edinburgh die and are almost certainly contemporary - a distinct group of three dies produced at the same time.