| Noonans (formerly Dix Noonan Webb) > Auction 286 | Auction date: 24 January 2024 |
| Lot number: 13 Price realized: 2,200 GBP (Approx. 2,787 USD / 2,573 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | Show similar lots on CoinArchives Find similar lots in upcoming auctions on  |
| Lot description: A Collection of Scottish Coins, the Property of a Gentleman (Part I) Alexander III (1249-1286), First coinage, Sterling, type VI, Kinghorn, Wilam, wil am· on· kin, 1.31g/3h (Holmes dies 3/C; cf. SCBI 35, 144; cf. Lockett 88; B –, fig. 93A, same obv. die; S 5046). Very fine, toned, excessively rare and numismatically important £1,200-£1,500 --- Provenance: bt Spink February 1982 This is the coin that provided the previously undiscovered obverse die link between Walter and Wilam at 'Kin' - confirming that there was no Renfrew mint. Burns originally suggested that Walter struck coins at Renfrew and Wilam at Kinghorn and, despite an article to the contrary by H.J. Dakers in 1936, this view persisted until the year 2000, mainly due to the lack of any die link between the two moneyers. This coin links a class VI obverse, which is normally found paired with a class III Walter reverse, to a reverse die in the name of Wilam. See R.W. Kirton and Lord Stewartby, 'The Long Voided Cross Sterlings of Kinghorn', Numismatic Chronicle, 2000, pp.304ff. |  |
