Watch List notes:

STUART. Charles I. 1625-1649. AR Twenty Pence (16mm, 0.93 g, 7h). Third (Falconer’s First) coinage. Class III; im: в/ғ. Edinburgh mint. Struck 1637-1642. CAR · D : G · SCOT · ANG · FR · ET · HIB · R, crowned and mantled bust left; XX / IVSTITIA · THRONVM · FIRMAT, crowned thistle. Burns 34 (fig. 1018); cf. SCBI 35 (Ashmolean & Hunterian), 1484-7 (for type); SCBC 5587. Good VF, attractively toned, minor flan flaw on the obverse.


From the Ian Gordon Collection (purchased from Classical Numismatic Group, 2004). Ex David McDonald Collection (Dix, Noonan, Webb 63, 7 October 2004), lot 741 (purchased first from Andy Singer and then reacquired from J. D. King).