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1 Demy - James II 1st Coinage, Type IVa
| Issuer | Scotland |
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| Year | 1437-1451 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | A crowned lion rampant is depicted at centre within a diamond-shaped lozenge, rendered in the bold, stylised manner characteristic of mid-fifteenth-century Scottish hammered gold coinage. The lozenge is formed by two interlaced lines creating a pointed quadrilateral frame, with small foliate or floral ornaments at each of its four corners. The surrounding field is plain, and the circular legend, separated from the central device by a plain inner ring, reads in Gothic lettering with annulet stops. The peripheral legend is contained between two beaded or plain borders at the coin's outer edge. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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James II inherited the Scottish throne at age six following his father's murder at Perth in 1437, and his minority — contested between rival noble factions — was marked by precisely the kind of political instability that disrupts orderly coinage. The demy series continued from James I's reign with only incremental typological changes, making reign attribution dependent on subtle die characteristics rather than obvious design breaks.
Sp 5218 places this within the first coinage sequence, before the 1451 revaluation that restructured Scottish gold denominations.