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Scottish Gold Lion SurfacesScottish gold lion of Robert III By Kerry Rodgers, World Coin News
October 05, 2009
One of the joys of numismatics is knowing unrecorded coins remain to be discovered. Although they seldom pop up on my radar, those patient souls who compile our auction catalogs must get a real buzz when they recognize they are holding something brand new. That buzz must be even more intense when the find occurs in a field many others have tilled long and deeply.
One such delight went on the block in Bowers and Merena’s American Numismatic Association Los Angles sale. It was a Scottish gold lion of Robert III (1390-1406). The reverse is conventional. It shows St. Andrew crucified on his diagonal cross whose arms extend to the coin’s edge. All of Robert’s first issue lions show a similar reverse.
However, the auctioneers clearly took considerable delight in listing all the standard catalogs in which this particular coin does not occur: Spink/Seaby, Richardson, Burns, Coincraft and SNG Oxford. The problem lies in its obverse. It has small crowns flanking the shield. In this it resembles the first lions issued by Robert’s grandson James II, but none of the cataloged issues of Robert show a similar design.
The example on offer was beautifully struck and graded Extremely Fine. It sold for a very healthy $8,913, including buyer’s premium, on an estimate of $5,000.
World Coin News readers of Scottish extraction who aren’t fully up to speed with Robert III may like to scan his biography on Wikipedia. He may have been the guy who introduced a gold coinage to Scotland, but he proved to be a somewhat poignant figure.
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