Watch List notes:

SCOTLAND. David II. 1329-1371. AR Halfgroat (23mm, 2.14 g, 3h). Second coinage. Edinburgh mint. Struck 1357-1367. + DAVID · DЄI · GRA · RЄX · SCOTORVm, crowned bust left; lis-tipped scepter before; all within tressure of six arches / + DnS PROS ЄCTOR mЄVS/ VILL A ЄD InBV RGh, long cross pattée; mullets of five points in quarters. Cf. Burns 9 (fig. 269 – for type); SCBI 35 (Ashmolean & Hunterian), 394 (same obv. die); SCBC 5105. Good VF, flat spots in legends. Attractive portrait.


From the Michael Joffre Collection. Ex Triton XII (5 January 2009), lot 1174.