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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 ...
A bawbee was a Scottish sixpence. The word means a debased copper coin, valued at six pence Scots (equal at the time to an English half-penny), issued from the reign of James V of Scotland to the reign of William II of Scotland. They were hammered until 1677, when they were produced upon screw presses.
The coins were struck in Gaul, possibly in an area to the north-east of Paris although the exact area is far from clear. [71] Coins of this type were first struck around 200BC but remained in use until the Roman occupation. [71] It has been suggested that their presence in Scotland is due to direct political or military contact. [71]
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.
The merk (Scottish Gaelic: marg) is a long-obsolete Scottish silver coin. Originally the same word as a money mark of silver, the merk was in circulation at the end of the 16th century and in the 17th century. It was originally valued at 13 shillings 4 pence (exactly 2 ⁄ 3 of a pound Scots, or about one shilling sterling), later raised to 14s ...
Celtic coinage was minted by the Celts from the late 4th century BC to the mid 1st century AD. Celtic coins were influenced by trade with and the supply of mercenaries to the Greeks, and initially copied Greek designs, especially Macedonian coins from the time of Philip II of Macedon and his son, Alexander the Great.
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.
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 ...