Scotland, Charles I Thirty-Shillings, first coinage, 'SEPRET' error in legend
Scotland, Charles I (1625-49),silver Thirty Shillings, first coinage (1625-34), 'SEPRET' legend error, James VI as horseman right with upright sword, inner and outer borders, ground line below, initial mark small thistle, legend surrounds CAROLVS. D.G. MAG. BRIT. FRAN. & HIB. REX,rev. crowned quartered shield of arms, QVÆ. DEVS. CONIVNXIT. NEMO. SEPRET, weight 14.90g (Burns 2, fig. 997; Bull 1b/S7-E; SCBI 35 [Scottish], 1411; SCBI 70 [National Museum of Scotland], 135ff; Murray pl. iii, 13; S.5541). Rich cabinet tone with residual mint bloom in the periphery, some weakness in the die or perhaps initial strike, otherwise very fine for type with a rare legend reading of Sepret as opposed to Separat.
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Scotland, Charles I (1625-49),silver Thirty Shillings, first coinage (1625-34), 'SEPRET' legend error, James VI as horseman right with upright sword, inner and outer borders, ground line below, initial mark small thistle, legend surrounds CAROLVS. D.G. MAG. BRIT. FRAN. & HIB. REX,rev. crowned quartered shield of arms, QVÆ. DEVS. CONIVNXIT. NEMO. SEPRET, weight 14.90g (Burns 2, fig. 997; Bull 1b/S7-E; SCBI 35 [Scottish], 1411; SCBI 70 [National Museum of Scotland], 135ff; Murray pl. iii, 13; S.5541). Rich cabinet tone with residual mint bloom in the periphery, some weakness in the die or perhaps initial strike, otherwise very fine for type with a rare legend reading of Sepret as opposed to Separat.
