1 Penny - David I Period C

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.