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2. Unicorn (coin) - Wikipedia

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   The unicorn was a gold coin that formed part of Scottish coinage between 1484 and 1525. It was initially issued in the reign of James III with a value of 18 shillings Scots, [1] but rising gold prices during the reign of James V caused its value to increase first to 20 shillings, and then 22. [2] The obverse of the coin shows a crowned unicorn.

3. Scottish coinage - Wikipedia

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   Gold and fine silver coins now had the same sizes and compositions in Scotland and England, but Scotland did maintain its own copper coinage. The Scottish and English coinages both used the same royal title, king of Great Britain, France and Ireland, and when they specified a denomination it was a Roman numeral which could be interpreted as ...

4. Mints of Scotland - Wikipedia

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   The Scottish Mint was the Kingdom of Scotland's official maker of Scottish coinage. There were a number of mints in Scotland, for the production of the Scottish coinage with the most important mint being in the capital, Edinburgh , which was active from the reign of David I (1124–1153), and was the last to close, in the 19th century.

5. Spink & Son - Wikipedia

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   Coins of Scotland, Ireland and the Islands, in annual editions and with black and white photos of the coins, and in 2007 it was converted to colour printing with newly-taken coin photographs. [12] Later on, Volume I. was split further into Coins of England & the United Kingdom, Pre-Decimal Issues (2024: 59th edition), and Coins of England & the ...

6. Plack (coin) - Wikipedia

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   James III of Scotland started minting placks and two pence half-placks in Edinburgh before 1473. They were made of "billon", an alloy with a low silver content. The name of the coin comes from a Flemish word for a metal disc. [2] James IV of Scotland, who reigned from 1488 to 1513, issued two kinds of four pence placks, both minted in billon ...

7. Scottish trade in the early modern era - Wikipedia

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   The currency remained one of the most debased and unreliable in Europe. No gold coins were issued by the Edinburgh mint after 1638 and with a balance of payments deficit that necessitated the export of large quantities of silver or bullion, the majority of coins in circulation between 1670 and 1707 were not in Scottish denominations. As a ...