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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 341847, member: 12789&quot;]I have numerous references on Scottish coinage, even Coincraft, which on page 161 lists the dates of these as 1664, 1665, 1670 1673, 1674, 1675, 1676, 1679, 1680, 1681, and 1682.&nbsp; As noted earlier, the weight and diameter have to be taken with a grain of salt, since Sir John Falconer, Alexander Maitland, and Archibald Falconer were prosecuted for corruption and in 1683 determined to be guilty of malfeasances with the coinage.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>As for counterfeits, yes indeed it would have been counterfeited and given a date as such, because counterfeiting was quite common in Scotland right up to the Union in 1707.&nbsp; I have several counterfeits, James IV, Mary etc. that were created contemporaneously and thus are actually now a bit scarcer than the regnal coinage.&nbsp; Most counterfeits created then were actually of smaller denomination coins, where the most need for coinage was.&nbsp; I have myself seen counterfeits of common date bawbees, bodles etc.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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