Watch List notes:

James III (1460-88), Groat, Edinburgh mint, Base silver issue of 1471 to c.1483, mintmark cross pattée, saltire stops, crowned bust half right in surcoat and armour, tressure of eight arcs with trefoil cusps, +IΛCOBVS DEI GRΛ REX SCOTORV surrounds. Rev, short cross fourchee or floriate cross with thistle heads and mullets of six points in alternate angles, legend reads VILLA EDINBV RG, 2.02g (S.5270; SCBI 35 [Scottish], 749; Burns Pl. XLIV:577). Light grey cabinet tone, legends both sides legible with a pleasing portrait and expression to the King, generally a weakly struck type almost always appearing with a broad flatness. Reverse, impressive, with little fade in some of the emblems. About very fine, rare, well provenanced.

Ex. De La Riviere, 29th March 2006.
Ex. G. A. Singer, 8th June, 1996.
Sotheby, 19th July 1984, lot 102.