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Scotland, John Baliol Halfpenny, first coinage, St Andrews

Scotland, John Baliol (1292-6), silver Halfpenny, First coinage, rough surface issue, St Andrew's mint, bust left with upright sceptre contained within inner toothed border, legend surrounds IOhANNES DEI GRA, rev. stars of six points in first and fourth quarters other angles plain, reads CIV ITA SAN DRE, weight 0.68g (SCBI 35 [Scottish] - ; B -; Holmes and Stewartby 2-a; S.5067; R5 - roughly seven examples known). Bold fine perhaps better for a first coinage 'rough surface' type, reverse about very fine, an excessively rare coin, with roughly 6-7 known, a true class I St Andrew's Halfpenny.

The abbreviated Latin legends translate as on obverse "John by the grace of God, and on the reverse as "City of Saint Andrews".

When Burns was writing in the late 19th Century the St Andrews Mint Halfpenny was unknown to him at that time.

Provenance:

Ex Dix Noonan and Webb, Auction 137, 21st September 2016, lot 1495.

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