SCOTLAND. David I. 1124-1153. AR Penny (21mm, 1.29 g, 1h). Edinburgh mint; uncertain moneyer. Struck 1136–early 1140s. [...DA]VID R[...], crowned bust right, holding lis-tipped scepter / [...O]N : EDON, cross moline-fleury. Grierson, Coins of Medieval Europe, p. 91 ; cf. Burns 23 (fig. 24C-D); cf. SCBI 35 (Ashmolean & Hunterian) 3/A; SCBC 5003. Small edge loss, mottled tone on reverse, obverse slightly double struck. VF. Very rare.

From the Richard A. Jourdan Collection of Medieval European Coins. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 72 (14 June 2006), lot 2674.

The striking of coins in Scotland was partly a result of the spread of Anglo-Norman influence. David I of Scotland ‘was half-English by birth, Anglo-Norman by education, earl of Huntingdon and claimant to Northumberland by marriage and during part of his reign master of Cumberland and Westmorland by conquest. His earliest coins, from the former English mint of Carlisle, were struck by the moneyer Erebald who had previously minted in the name of Henry I, and all his pennies were English in inspiration and sometimes in design.’ Grierson, p.91