Watch List notes:

SCOTLAND. James II. 1437-1460. AV Demy (24mm, 3.37 g, 6h). First coinage, type IVb/IVa. Edinburgh mint; im: crown. Struck 1437-1451. (crown) IΛOBVS : DЄI : GRΛCIΛ : RЄX : SC (double saltire stops), coat-of-arms within ornate lozenge / + SΛLVVm : FΛC POPVLVm : TVVm Dn (double annulet stops), St. Andrew's Cross, flanked by lis, within double linear six-arched stellate pattern, each arch ending in lis; quatrefoil with filled center in each external void. Burns 8 (cf. fig. 513); SCBI 35 (Ashmolean & Hunterian) 968 (same obv. die); SCBC 5219. Toned. Good VF.


From the James & Martha Robertson Collection. Ex Stack's (30 July 2009), lot 2420; H. Hird Collection (Glendining, 6 March 1974) lot 27.