SCOTLAND. David I. 1124-1153. AR penny (sterling). 1.27 gm. 20 mm. (19.6 grains) Class II (Burns). Berwick. Crowned bust in armor, right with scepter fleury / Cross fleury with small pellets on stalks in three angles and a fleur de lis in the fourth angle; ...ER.... S. 5008 (var). For comparable, if not identical reverse die examples: Cf. Burns 18. Cf. Lindsay Pl. I:12. Cf. SCBI 35. Scottish Coins in the Ashmoleon and Hunterian: 12. Cf. Richardson. National Museum Edinburgh: 2. Very Fine; substantial detail, good metal, pleasing old toning--all in all exceptional for this issue that Stewartby typifies as coins that show "inexperience and carelessness." This is a particularly rare and unusual type from a reign where all decent examples are rare. The more typical sterling of this reign has pellets in the angles of the cross fleury.

(The orientation of the die axes in the photograph follows Burns.)