1357-1367 AD. Obv: profile bust with sceptre before and +DAV[ID]REXSCOTO legend. Rev: long cross and five-pointed mullets with [VIL] LAED INBV RGH legend for Edinburgh mint. S. 5122A; SCBI 35, -; see Holmes & Lord Stewartby, BNJ 70: Scottish Coinage in the First Half of the Fourteenth Century, appendix B, pp.58-59 and plate 6, 3 (same dies, 0.51 grams). United Kingdom Detector Finds Database, reference 46090. 0.40 grams. Found near Saxmundham, Suffolk, UK, 2014. The existence of halfpenny coins for the second coinage of David II was doubted for many years; writers such as Snelling, Burns and Hawkins make reference to possible coins (with only two mullets to the reverse) and the Stewartby specimen listed above appeared in the F. A. Walters sale of 24-27 October 1932, lot 628 (where its authenticity was doubted), bought then by Baldwins for the sum of six shillings before it passed to the Stewartby collection; it was first published in the Holmes & Stewartby paper in 2001 and was described as being 'unique' in earlier editions of the (now) Spink's Coins of Scotland Ireland and the Islands.

Very fine; small area of flan edge missing. Exceedingly rare; the second recorded specimen.