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

John Baliol (1292-1296), First coinage, Sterling, without mint name (probably Berwick), mm. cross pattée, small irregular lettering, crude bust left, rev. long cross, four mullets of six points in angles, 1.36g/4h (Stewartby and Holmes 11/as; cf. SCBI 35, 300; B 1b, fig. 210B, same dies; S 5065). Fine, reverse better, rare £120-£150

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

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Bt D. Cavanagh September 1981

n the opinion of the vendor ‘it seems likely that this First coinage was actually issued under Baliol, while the Second coinage is much more problematic’. The first coinage is a continuation of, and die-links with, Alexander’s type J which, like type H, was probably posthumous, being issued c. 1286-92. A mullet punch with a broken point, used on Baliol’s first coinage Sterlings (B 210A and 210B) is also found on some type J reverses