Bright surfaces
Toned with reverse cross slightly ghosted through on obverse
good very fine and very rare this well preserved
34mm (Eimer 460
has been graded and slabbed by CGS UK as UNC85
Scotland, James VI 1584 gold Lion Noble of 75 Shillings VF25, of highest rarity Bright surfacesScotland, James VI (1567 1625), gold Lion Noble of 75 Shillings, 1584, fourth coinage, seated sejant lion facing holding sword and sceptre within beaded inner circle, legend surrounding, initial mark quatrefoil, POST. 5.&. 100. PROA. INVICTA. MANENT. HEC, rev. S at centre of four cruciform crowned IR monograms within inner beaded circle, legend surrounding, initial mark quatrefoil, DEVS. IVDICIVM. TVVM. REGI. DA. 1584 (Burns 1, fig. 949; SCBI 35: