90 NOTES ON COINS. BY DR HARDY 



The standard weight of this piece is 39*26 grs. troj', and 

 weighs 22 carats to the ounce, struck in the proportion of six to 

 the ounce. 



The coin shown conforms to these specifications. 

 Obverse : —Eose Jacobus 6 D.G.E. Scotorum. 

 Eeverse: — Salus Populi Suprema Lex. 1602. 



These three coins are in capital preservation. It only remains 

 to add that I am indebted to Mr Erskine Stirling for lending 

 them to me, and to the magnificent and scholarly " Coinage of 

 Scotland," by Edward Burns, F.S.A., which I have freely 

 quoted, and for the use of which I have to thank our fellow- 

 member Mr C. B. Balfour, Newton Don. 



Coins belo?iging to Mr Darlhtg, Priest law, from a Collection 

 formed by the Darling family at Millknowe. (See present 

 Vol. p. J4.) By Dr Hardy. 



The coins were handed to me, and I deposited them 

 with Mr Ferguson at Duns, at whose house I endeavoured 

 to decipher them. Mr Ferguson kindly made for me impres- 

 sions in wax of those most worthy of record. The coins were 

 not in such a perfect condition as to ensure absolute accuracy 

 of rendering, but their main features were preserved. 



Francis and Mary. 

 The finest was a silver piece of Francis and Mary, foujid 

 at Nun's Walls, near Horseupcleuch, on Dye Water. The 

 coin is 1-iV inches in diameter. On tlie Obverse, in the centre, 

 is a large F. and M. combined, underneath a closed crown 

 surmounted by a Latin cross. Oa one side of the F. and M., 

 three Fleur-de-lis under a Latin cross for France, and on the 

 other a Scots Thistle treated in the same manner for Scotland. 

 The inscription is vicit. leo. de. tribv. ivda. 1560. Reverse — 

 A closed crown, surmounted by a Latin cross, alfove a shield, 

 divided into two compartments, three Fleur-de-lis for France 

 on the one, and a Lion rampant for Scotland on the other ; 

 outside of the shield a Latin cross on one side for France, 

 and a St. Andrew's cross on the other for Scotland. Inscrip- 

 tion FRAN. ET. MA. D.G.R.R. FRANCO. SCOTOR. Fraucis and 



Mary by the Grace of God, King and Queen of the French 

 ^nd Scots. 



