Scotland

ca. 1286 Penny

ALEXANDER DEI GRA
Portrait of Alexander

REX SCOTORVM
Long cross, six-pointed mullets in each quadrant.

2nd coinage, neat hair.

1306-29 Farthing

ROBERTVS DEI GRA
Crowned bust facing left with scepter.

Four mullets of five points.

S 5078

Bawbee

1558 Lion


S 5445

1558 Testoon minted in Edinburgh

FECIT VTRAQVE VNVM
Large crowned FM monogram, a cross of Lorraine on either side.

FRAN ET MA DEI G R R SCOTOR D D VIEN
Shield of the dimidiated arms of Francis as Dauphin and of Scotland, the Scottish lion appearing twice, set over a cross potent.

Type I. Crown mintmark. Ex Goeffrey Cope (2025).
S 5416

1560 Testoon

VICIT LEO DE TRIBV IVDA
Crowned FM monogram, a crowned lis to one side and a crowned thistle to the other.

FRAN ET MA D G R R FRANCO SCOTOR Q
Crowned shield of the arms of Francis and Mary over a cross potent, a plain cross to the left and a saltire (St Andrew’s cross) to the right.

Type II.
S 5417

1561 Testoon

VICIT LEO DE TRIBV IVDA
Crowned FM monogram, a crowned lis to one side and a crowned thistle to the other.

FRAN ET MA D G R R FRANCO SCOTOR Q
Shorter crown of five lis over the dimidiated arms of France and Scotland, set over a cross potent, a plain cross to the left and a saltire to the right.

Type II. Crowned thistle countermark indicating the 1578 revaluation from 5 shillings to 7 shillings and 4 pence. Possibly fewer than 20 1561 non-portrait testoons surviving (2026).
S 5418

1582 10 Shillings