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A guide to the Department of coins and medals in the British museum (1922)

British Museum. Dept. of Coins and Medals, Hill, George Francis, Sir, 1867-1948 · London : The Trustees · leaf 55

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); and the two coinages of William the Lion,the grandson of David, resemble approximately those of Henry II(Nos. 4-9). Thepennies of AlexanderII(Nos. 10, 11) are again of theshort-cross type which continued in England to the reign of HenryIII, and the later money of Alexander III (Nos. 12-18)… … Fig. 33. St. Andrew of James III of Scotland, a. d. 1460. of the moneyers. David II was the first Scottish sovereign to issuea gold coin, which was a noble (No. 24) struck after the pattern of thenoble of Edward III, and he also struck groats and half-groats (Nos.27, 28). From this time there comes…

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