Important British and World Coins

James VI (1567-1625), Double-Crown, type I, mm. thistle-head, English arms in first and fourth quarters, 4.52g/11h (SCBI 35, 1345, same dies; B pp.430-1, note; S 5465). Mounted, gilt and some tooling to portrait, otherwise fair to fine, extremely rare, very few specimens known (£600-800)

Provenance:
S.P. Fay ‘Dundee’ Collection, Bowers & Ruddy/Spink Auction (Los Angeles), 19 February 1976, lot 278.

Patrick Finn, the cataloguer of the Fay collection, stated that there were only six specimens known, of which four are in institutional collections; his note was expanded in the catalogue of the Murray collection under lot 23, in which three specimens are listed in museums (BM, Ashmolean and Edinburgh). It is one of the very few Scottish gold coin types never owned by the late R.C. Lockett