Coins Of Scotland
The coinage of Scotland covers a range of currency and coins in Scotland during Classical antiquity, the reign of ancient provincial kings, royal dynasties of the ancient Kingdom of Scotland and the later Mediaeval and Early modern periods.
Read more about Coins Of Scotland: Ancient History and Roman Trade (ca 71–400 AD), Early Medieval Period (500–900), Scottish Crown (ca 1100–1600), Union of The Crowns (from 1603), List of Scottish Coins, Scottish Monarchs Who Issued Coins
Famous quotes containing the words coins and/or scotland:
“No Time, spoke the clocks, no God, rang the bells,
I drew the white sheet over the islands
And the coins on my eyelids sang like shells.”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.”
—James I of England, James VI of Scotland (1566–1625)