This is the reverse of a copper coin minted between 1450 and 1480, during the reign of James II or James III. The coin may well have been valued at three pence Scots.
The reverse has a cross within a quatrefoil. There are pellets on the cusps and nothing in the spandrel. The Latin inscription 'Crux pellit omne crimen' translates as: 'The cross drives away all sin'.
The words in the inscription are taken from a 4th century hymn by Prudentius. The coins are known as the 'crux pellit' issue from the first two words of the inscription.
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