Auction Catalogue

11 & 12 June 2014

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Ancient, British & World Coins, Commemorative Medals and Books

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 453

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11 June 2014

Hammer Price:
£270

Scotland, Alexander III, First coinage, Sterling, type III, Glasgow, Walter, walter on gla, 1.16g/6h (SCBI 35, 121; B 53, fig. 118; S 5043). Face weak, otherwise good fine, rare £200-250

With a distinctive cursive t in Walter, which, as Burns pointed out, ‘is the same form as the g in gla