Watch List notes:

SCOTLAND. James I. 1406-1437. AR Groat (23mm, 2.19 g, 11h). First fleur-de-lis issue. Edinburgh mint. + ICOBVS · DЄI · TRΛCIΛ · RЄX · SCOTOR : (lis and double saltire stops), crowned facing bust; lis-tipped scepter and saltire to lef, I to rightt; lis and two saltires on breast; all within tressure of seven arches with lis at cusps / + DnS · P : TЄCOTOR MS I LI · BΛTORm/ VI'LL Λ · ЄD · InBV · RGh : (lis and double trefoil stops), long cross pattée; trefoils with additional pellets in first and fourth quarter, lis in second, lis flanked by pellet and saltire in third. Burns 12 (fig. 440); cf. SCBI 35 (Ashmolean & Hunterian), 644 (for type); SCBC 5195. VF, toned, areas of weak strike in legends. Rare.


From the Michael Joffre Collection.