Electrum Hemihekte (1/12 Stater)
otherwise a pleasing example of this extremely rare gold token of Forty Shillings
Moneyer Falche
BMC type XIV 224
HALF / FARTHING/ 1853 (Peck 1601
Scotland, James IV Groat, light coinage, Edinburgh, type III, QRA legend Electrum Hemihekte (1/12 Stater)Scotland, James IV (1488 1513), silver Groat, light coinage (1496 c. 1513), type IIIc, Edinburgh, facing crowned bust surrounded by tressure of seven arcs, trefoil on five cusps, beaded circles and legend surrounding with star stops, initial mark crown, IACOBVS* DEI* GRA* REX* SCOTTORV'* QRA, rev. long cross patte, tri pellets in two opposing inner angles, pierced mullet in each of other two inner angles, beaded circles and dual concentric legend with