Scotland, Charles I Thirty-Shillings
Scotland, Charles I (1625-49), silver Thirty Shillings, third coinage (1637-42), Thomas Falconer's first issue, type IV, armoured King on horseback left, flowing scarf behind with two ends, holding upright sword, F under horse's rear raised hoof, smooth ground line below, legend and beaded borders surrounding both sides, initial mark thistle with colon either side, right colon struck over a thistle mint mark, pellet stops in legend, CAROLVS: D: G: MAG: BRIT: FRAN: ET: HIB: REX:, rev. inverted die axis, crowned quartered shield of arms, five pointed star over crown to left of top cross, six pointed star to right of cross, thistle mark at start of legend QVÆ. DEVS: CONIVNXIT: NEMO: SEPERAT, the last T tiny and above left edge of crown, weight 14.99g (Burns 39, fig.-; Bull type 4, no.15 legend 5; S.5555). Usual flawed planchet at top of obverse for this variety, some other flan adjustment marks on horseman, otherwise good very fine and one of the plate coins in Bull specifically to illustrate the colon over the thistle on obverse and the two stars over crown on reverse, a rare variety.
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Scotland, Charles I (1625-49), silver Thirty Shillings, third coinage (1637-42), Thomas Falconer's first issue, type IV, armoured King on horseback left, flowing scarf behind with two ends, holding upright sword, F under horse's rear raised hoof, smooth ground line below, legend and beaded borders surrounding both sides, initial mark thistle with colon either side, right colon struck over a thistle mint mark, pellet stops in legend, CAROLVS: D: G: MAG: BRIT: FRAN: ET: HIB: REX:, rev. inverted die axis, crowned quartered shield of arms, five pointed star over crown to left of top cross, six pointed star to right of cross, thistle mark at start of legend QVÆ. DEVS: CONIVNXIT: NEMO: SEPERAT, the last T tiny and above left edge of crown, weight 14.99g (Burns 39, fig.-; Bull type 4, no.15 legend 5; S.5555). Usual flawed planchet at top of obverse for this variety, some other flan adjustment marks on horseman, otherwise good very fine and one of the plate coins in Bull specifically to illustrate the colon over the thistle on obverse and the two stars over crown on reverse, a rare variety.
