Scottish Coins and Banknotes
This a bit of a unique site, it provides a college level study guide for the currency of Scotland along with pictures and information for each example from Roman times to the present. It can be quite educational to follow it through from beginning to end.
Pathfinder Pack on Money
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Die Interchanges Between Scottish Mints
The following is taken from -
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
Volume 70 (1935-36)
I managed to find this quite by accident, but since it is of particular interest to collectors of Scottish coinage and contains information not easily found anywhere else, I have added it.
Quote:
DIE INTERCHANGES BETWEEN SCOTTISH MINTS.
BY C. H. DAKERS, F.S.A.ScoT.
Medieeval Scotland was not rich and consequently there was no great
demand for a metallic medium of exchange. What demand there was, was
met to a great extent by importing foreign money, largely that of England.
This may be clearly seen in such hoards as the Montrave, in which the
English outnumbered the Scottish coins in the proportion of a.bout
20 to I.1 The bulk of the Scottish portion of this hoard, moreover, dates
from the end of Alexander III.'s reign when the long-single-cross coinage
was struck; "which coinage is the commonest of all the Scottish series.
In the circumstances it is not surprising that the output of the Scottish
mint should have been scanty, and that the specimens which have survived
to our times should serve to show how few dies there were actually
in use. Even the extensive series of the Alexander III. long-singlecross
pennies, which mark the most prosperous period of Scottish mediaeval
history, can frequently be identified as being from the same dies as those
illustrated in Burns. Scottish numismatists are peculiarly fortunate in
that Burns published his invaluable work at a time when illustrations
could be properly and exactly produced, and in that he had a patron
who could afford to have them so done. As a result, the student is able
to make a study of die impressions with comparative ease. Often he
can establish the exact identity of his own coins with those in Burns's
plates. .......................
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DIE INTERCHANGES BETWEEN SCOTTISH MINTS.
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For more on the coinage of Scotland from the " Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland" see the following links -
NOTE ON IIUDDIMAN'S TABLE OF THE VALUE OF THE SILVER MONEY
COINED IN SCOTLAND. BY K. W. COCHKAN PATRICK, ESQ., B.A.,
LL.R, F.S.A. SCOT. - 1872 NOTES ON THE SCOTTISH MINTS. BY R. W. COCHRAN PATRICK,
ESQ., B.A., LL.B., F.S.A. SCOT. - 1873 The Scottish Mint after the recoinage, 1709-1836 - by
Athol L Murray - 1999
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