Watch List notes:

SCOTLAND. James VI. 1567-1625. AR Two-thirds ryal (39mm, 20.30 g, 5h). First coinage. Edinburgh mint. Dated 1571. ≥ IACOBVS • 6 • DEI • GRATIA • REX • SCOTORVM ≥, crowned royal coat-of-arms; crowned I R across field / ≥ PRO • ME • SI • MEREOR • IN • ME ≥, upright sword surmounted by crown; hand pointing toward XX (denomination); 15 71 across field. Burns, p. 351; SCBI 35 (Ashmolean & Hunterian) –; SCBC 5474. EF, darkly toned. An exceptional example. Rare date.


Ex Richard Cyril Lockett Collection (Part XI, Glendining, 26 October 1960), lot 928; Thomas Bearman Collection (purchased en bloc by Baldwin's, circa 1922); John Gloag Murdoch Collection (Part II, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 11 May 1903), lot 244.