Coins, Tokens and Historical Medals

Robert II (1371-1390), Groat, Edinburgh, star on sceptre-handle, tressure of six arcs and trefoils in spandrels, pellet (over b [?]) behind head, 3.21g/1h (cf. SCBI 35, 458-9; B 8, fig. 328; S 5132). Clipped and sometime cleaned, otherwise very fine and rare, the altered privy-mark apparently unrecorded £200-300

Bonagius of Florence, who left the episcopal mint of Durham in 1364, was master of the mint in Scotland from 1364-93. A small letter b, presumably for the mintmaster’s initial, is found behind the King’s head on scarce issues of groats, halfgroats and pence of Robert II. The current specimen appears to have had that mark obliterated by a large oval pellet