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

Robert III (1390-1406), Heavy coinage, Second issue/First issue Mule, Groat, Edinburgh, mm. cross potent, tressure of nine arcs, trefoils on all cusps, including on breast, double pellet stops, five pellets cruciform after scottorvm, rev. three pellets in quarters of cross, double saltire stops after dns, villa and rgh, 2.76g/7h (Richardson p.87, 183; SCBI 35, 564, same rev. die, SCBI 72, –; B 36, figs 371, same rev. die; S 5166). Very fine, toned, the mule extremely rare £240-£300

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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Burns did not publish this obverse die but it was published by Sheriff Mackenzie in 1884.