| Classical Numismatic Group > Electronic Auction 552 | Auction date: 13 December 2023 |
| Lot number: 846 Price realized: 130 USD (Approx. 121 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: SCOTLAND. Mary. 1542-1567. BI Bawbee (22mm, 1.96 g, 4h). First period, Class I. Edinburgh mint. Struck 1542-1558. Crowned thistle; M R flanking / Crown over saltire cross; cinquefoils flanking. SCBC 5432. Toned, green deposits. Good Fine. Ex Agora 10 (27 May 2014), lot 191. Estimate: 100 USD |  |
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| Classical Numismatic Group > Electronic Auction 561 | Auction date: 1 May 2024 |
| Lot number: 990 Price realized: 200 USD (Approx. 187 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: SCOTLAND. Mary. 1542-1567. BI Bawbee (21mm, 2.17 g, 6h). First period. Edinburgh mint. Struck 1542-1558. Crowned thistle; M R flanking / Crown on voided saltire; cinquefoils flanking. SCBC 5433. Lightly toned, flan crack, small lamination flaw at edge, usual minor porosity. Near VF. From the J. Eric Engstrom Collection. Estimate: 100 USD |  |
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| Classical Numismatic Group > Electronic Auction 561 | Auction date: 1 May 2024 |
| Lot number: 989 Price realized: 1,100 USD (Approx. 1,029 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: SCOTLAND. Mary. 1542-1567. AR Testoon (25mm, 5.96 g, 9h). First period, group IIIb. Edinburgh mint. Dated 1558. Crowned coat-of-arms; M R flanking / Jerusalem cross. SCBC 5406. Toned. VF. An attractive example. From the J. Eric Engstrom Collection. Ex J. Eric Engstrom (Classical Numismatic Group 105, 10 May 2017), lot 1232, purchased from Spink. Estimate: 750 USD |  |
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| Numismatica Ars Classica > Auction 145 with CNG & NGSA | Auction date: 8 May 2024 |
| Lot number: 1217 Price realized: 75,000 CHF (Approx. 82,900 USD / 77,006 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: The Geoffrey Cope Collection of British Coins. Scotland, Mary Stuart. 1542-1567. AR Testoon (31mm, 5.08 g, 2h). First period, before marriage. Edinburgh mint, im cinquefoil / cross. Dated 1553. MARIA . DEI . GRA. R . SCOTORVM, Crowned bust right / . DA . PACEM . DOMINE . 1553 ., Crowned coat-of-arms; cinquefoils flanking. Murray, Testoons dies E/4, 4 = J. Wingate, Illustrations of the Coinage of Scotland (Glasgow, 1868), pl. XXVI, 11 (this coin); Burns 1 (fig. 780; same obv. die); SCBI 58 (Edinburgh), 284 (same dies); SCBC 5401. Lightly double struck on obverse, a superb full round coin with exceptional detail. Richly toned. Good VF. The finest known example of this delicate portrait issue of the eleven year old queen. Ex Spink 161 (14 November 2002), lot 140; Glendining (19 June 1990), lot 693; R.C. Lockett (Scottish Part I, Glendining, 18 June 1957), lot 313; T. Bearman Collection (purchased en bloc by Baldwin's, 1922); J.G. Murdoch (Sotheby, Wilkinson, & Hodge, 11 May 1903), lot 187 'said to be the best known'; S. Addington Collection; J. Wingate (Sotheby, Wilkinson, & Hodge, 29 November 1875), lot 237. It may be worthy of note that this wonderful coin sold for £40/0/0 in the Murdoch sale and while the celebrated Testoon of Henry VIII (lot 1194 above) sold for £40/10/-. Estimate: 20000 CHF |  |
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| Classical Numismatic Group > Electronic Auction 552 | Auction date: 13 December 2023 |
| Lot number: 845 Price realized: 160 USD (Approx. 148 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: SCOTLAND. James V. 1513-1542. BI Bawbee (23mm, 1.73 g, 4h). Third coinage. Edinburgh mint. Struck 1538-1542. Crowned thistle; I 5 flanking, annulet over I / Crown over saltire cross; lis flanking. SCBC 5384. Toned, slight roughness, , minor areas of weak strike, tiny edge split. Good Fine. Purchased by the consignor from Pegasi. Estimate: 100 USD |  |
