David II (1329-1371), Second/Third Coinage, Groat, class C, Edinburgh, mm. cross pattée, older bust with aquiline nose, tressure of six arcs, nothing in spandrels, star behind head, rev. star between e and d of edinbvrgh, 4.14g/12h (SCBI 35, 390; B vol. I, p. 257; S 5123). Slightly weak on portrait, otherwise very fine and toned, very rare
£400-500

Provenance: Bt Baldwin June 2002.

Burns refers to this rare variety in the text as having been first published by Lindsay (pl. iv, 94) but does not illustrate an example himself, Although Stewart (1967) assigned to the third coinage, Mrs Joan Murray commented that, taking the weight of known specimens into consideration, it may belong just before May 1366 and the Act which reduced the weight of the coinage