Numismatica Ars Classica > Auction 145 with CNG & NGSAAuction date: 8 May 2024
Lot number: 1221

Price realized: 6,500 CHF   (Approx. 7,185 USD / 6,674 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
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Lot description:


The Geoffrey Cope Collection of British Coins. Scotland, James VI. 1567-1625.
AR Half Merk (33mm, 6.98 g, 2h). Second coinage. Edinburgh mint. Dated 1572. Crowned coat-of-arms 6 8 flanking / Cross fleurée with five-rayed star at center; alternating crowns and thistles in quarters. Burns 1 (fig. 924); SCBI 58 (Edinburgh) 1387 (same obv. die); SCBC 5478.
Toned. Good VF. Rare thus.

Ex M. & E. Stewart (Dix Noonan Webb 10, 5 December 2012), lot 668, purchased from Spink, 1978.

Estimate: 1000 CHF