Depiction of the king wearing a small crown and seated on a bench-shaped throne, wearing an under garment with long sleeves, and over it another well-fitted garment which becomes loose at the waist and extends below his knees, with sleeves to the elbow. On top of this he wears a mantle fastened with short tasselled cords. He is holdings a sword in his right hand and an orb with a cross in his left. In the field, below each hand, is a roundel.
Image description (reverse)
In the form of an equestrian seal, with a horse *courant*. The king is on horseback to *sinister*, wearing spurs, chain mail, a rich surcoat with a hood and a conical helmet with nasal. His foot is curved over the stirrup, and he holds a sloping lance with a pennon of three tails in his right hand and a kite-shaped shield in his left. The device on the pennon cannot be discerned, and it is the inside of the shield which is displayed.
Legend (obverse)
ALEXANDER DEO RECTORE REX SCOTTORVM (“Alexander, by God’s rule king of the Scots”)
Legend (reverse)
ALEXANDER DEO RECTORE REX SCOTTORVM (“Alexander, by God’s rule king of the Scots”)
Catalogue
R/K/3/1
Notes
The legend is the same on the obverse and reverse, with the ‘M’ of Scottorum missing from the obverse.
Dimensions: 2 5/8 in. (cf. Greenwell and Blair, 70 mm. and SCRAN, 72 mm.) diameter.
SW I, p.2, nos. 4 and 5.
Durham 3075.
Scran ID: 000-180-001-780-C (obverse); 000-000-582-468-C (reverse).