The Late Jim Sazama Collection of Medieval Coins

Scotland, William the Lion, Short Cross and Stars coinage, Sterling, Phase B, Roxburgh (?), Hue Walter, bust left, hve wal r, rev. one star of five, three of six points, hve wal ro, 1.30g/2h (SCBI 35 –; B –; S 5029). Well struck, good very fine and toned, rare £200-250

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Late Jim Sazama Collection of Medieval Coins.

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Provenance: C.E. Bullowa-Moore Collection, Spink Auction 151, 15 March 2001, lot 494; M.J. Anderson Collection, Spink Auction 183, 26-7 September 2006, lot 432.

Catalogued as having no mint name in the Bullowa sale; Hue Walro simply being interpreted as a blundered version of Hue Walter. However Anderson and Sazama preferred to read the reverse as Hue Wal Ro and attributed it to Roxburgh. While the cataloguer prefers the former interpretation, a coin in the Ashmolean Collection (SCBI 35, 71) reading hue wal · ro does perhaps lend some weight to the latter opinion