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1 Penny - David I Period C

Issuer Kingdom of Scotland
Year 1145-1153
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Composition Silver (.925)
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Obverse description Facing crowned bust of King David I within a beaded inner circle, the king depicted in a stylized, archaic manner characteristic of 12th-century Scottish hammered coinage. The royal effigy is rendered with a broad, flat crown and schematic facial features, with the legend DAVID REX arcing around the periphery in Latin characters. The field surrounding the bust shows the rough, irregular surface typical of hand-struck medieval silver pennies. The overall design reflects the Anglo-Norman artistic influence prevalent in Scottish coinage of this period.
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Edge Plain
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David I introduced a Scottish royal coinage around 1136, drawing directly on Anglo-Norman minting conventions he had absorbed during years spent at the English court — he had been Earl of Huntingdon under Henry I and understood the administrative machinery of coin production. Period C represents a late phase of his issue, struck in the final decade of his reign as he pushed Scottish royal authority deeper into the north of England following the 1138 Battle of the Standard, a campaign he lost militarily but partially won diplomatically through the subsequent Treaty of Durham.

Moneyers for David's coinage operated from multiple towns, and attributing specific pieces to individual mint sites remains contested.

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