A Collection of Scottish Coins, the Property of a Gentleman

Robert III (1390-1406), Heavy coinage, Second issue, Groat, Edinburgh, mm. cross potent, tressure of seven arcs, trefoils on six cusps, trefoil on breast, double pellet stops, reads gracia, rev. three pellets in quarters of cross, double pellet stops after dns, p, ms, z and villa, 2.72g/7h (cf. SCBI 35, 582; SCBI 72, 185 and B 39g, fig. 384A, same obv. die; S 5166). About very fine, the obverse reading very rare £240-£300

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Scottish Coins, the Property of a Gentleman.

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DNW Auction 128, 11 February 2015, lot 177

The vendor describes this as “one of the rather scarce homogeneous Edinburgh groats - the norm at that mint being combinations with different stops on obverse and reverse”.