Details

LOT 2247

World Coins - Scotland - William the Lion - Roxburgh / Folpold - Early Issue Cross and Lis Penny 1165-1174 AD

Obv: profile crowned bust right with sceptre and +WILELMMVS REX error legend. Rev: cross pattée with fleurs in angles with +FOL:POLD:ONROC legend for the moneyer Folpold at Roxburgh mint. Very fine; slightly weak strike behind bust. Exceedingly rare; new obverse die.(1.36 grams.).

Provenance

Found Dalmahoy, near Edinburgh, 2015.

Published

See Early Medieval Corpus, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, reference EMC 2015.0413 (this coin).

Literature

S. 5021; SCBI 35, -; see Burns p.47, pl.3, 25B (same reverse die?); see also Stewart p.9, pl.2, 16 (same coin as Burns).

Footnotes

This is the first issue of William the Lion (1165-1214 AD); all were minted at Roxburgh and by the moneyer Folpold with perhaps only four other coins recorded of the type; Burns illustrates three coins of the issue, all from different dies; two being distinguished by having the reverse legend offset from the alignment of the central cross. The obverse die for this coin is distinctive for the erroneous spelling WILELMMVS for the king's name and is certainly not previously recorded; the reverse die is possibly the same as seen for Burns 25B (and Stewart 16, same coin).