THE COIN COLLECTOR - World eBook Library

UNIQUE OR REMARKABLE COINS
Scotland . . . Gold unicorn and half-unicorn of Janiea III.
(1486).
The divisions of the gold rider and St. Andrew
of James IV. (1488).
The gold ryal and St. Andrew of James V.
(1517).
The two-third and one-third Bonnet piece
of James V. (1539).
The coins of Mary I. with her portrait.
The twenty-pound (Scots) piece, hat-piece, and
divisions of the unit, all in gold, of James VI.
The so-called Cruickston dollar (1565).
The forty-shilling-piece in silver (1582).
The sword and sceptre piece (1604).
Charles I.. . . The lower divisions of the gold unit.
James VII. . . The
silver sixty-shilling piece (1688).
William II. {III. The silver sixty-shilling piece (1699).
of England) The gold pistole and half pistole for Darien
(1701).
Any Scotish billon or copper coins in fine state are
more or less rare.
The coins in billon, silver, and gold struck by the
sovereigns of England in various parts of France from
Henry II. to Henry VIII. constitute a remarkable
group, among which are numbered several rarities of
the first order, like the gold mouton, chaise, and florin
of Edward III., the guiennois and other coins of the
Black Prince; the gold salute and gros d'argent of
Henry V., and many more pieces, some insignificant
as works of art, but valuable as historical and numis-
matic relics. Akerman, in his " Numismatic Manual,"
1840, gives a very fair account of this peculiar series,
which was very imperfectly known to the earlier
antiquaries.
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