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Description: | A Scottish penny of Alexander III (AD 1249-1286). Second coinage (from AD 1280). This is a rare variety of an early penny of the second coinage. It is as Spink 5050 in that it has the same obverse legend; but it does not have the cross pattee, but three pellets supressing a very narrow cross. The reverse is as Spink 5050, in that it also has two T's. There is not an example of the variety on the PAS database. Neither the Ashmolean or the Hunterian have an example. See "Classification of the single-cross sterlings of Alexander III" , Stewart and North, p45., in The British Numismatic Journal, Vol. 69, 1990. They refer to it as in their Class A2. They mention this variety with three pellets, but fail to mention the suppressed cross. For this see "The Coinage of Scotland", E.Burns, 1887. p.165, and fig. 147.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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