Record ID: SWYOR-7209D2
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver Scottish Medieval coin; a penny of James I (1406 - 1437), Class C2. The coin was minted at Aberdeen. It does not match any of the coins in Spink Volume II (2003), Coins of Scotland, Ireland and the Islands, but an example of the same coin though from different dies is held in the National Museum of Scotland. Nicholas Holmes (Research Associate, Numismatics at the National Museum of Scotland) comments that: "[this is] a very scarce coin, and in unusually good condition for the issue. [...] Stewart's Scottish Coinage states that coins of this type can have lis, annulet or s…
Created on: Wednesday 5th September 2012
Last updated: Friday 5th October 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Unknown', grid reference and parish protected.