SCOTLAND. James V. 1513-1542. AV Crown (27mm, 3.39 g, 4h). Second issue. Type III. Edinburgh mint. Struck 1526-1529. (star) IΛCOBVS :· 5 :· DEI :· GRΛ :· REX :· SCOTORVM, crowned coat-of-arms; Xs flanking / (crown) CRVCIS :· ΛRMΛ :· SEQVAMVR, cross fleurée with quatrefoil at center; thistles in quarters. Burns 6 (fig. 743); SCBI 35 (Ashmolean & Hunterian), 895 (same dies); SCBC 5370. Toned. VF.

From the James & Martha Robertson Collection, purchased from Baldwin’s, May 2011. Ex Firth of Clyde Collection (Stack’s, 22 April 2009), lot 2245; St. James’s 2 (11 May 2005), lot 566.