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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 26353738, member: 12789&quot;]Your penny has a wonderful colour, and it is from the third coinage that was minted starting in the mid 1350s.&nbsp; Indeed the pennies are less common than groats as a large number of the groats were minted for the purpose of paying tribute to Edward III of England in lieu of David II being released from English captivity whilst the pennies largely stayed in Scotland and were lost like yours was.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a penny from David&#039;s first coinage that was issued beginning in 1333:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1682134[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1682135[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>And the above is from the second coinage.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a half-groat, a stinker to find a nice example:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1682136[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1682137[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The larger coin is a groat, but not a common one - minted in Edinburgh but the obverse is what sets it apart from most Scots groats - it has seven arcs in the tressure around the king&#039;s portrait - there are approximately half a dozen reported examples of this coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sorry canna help much with valuation, I bought all of mine a couple of decades ago.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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