LOT 3415
Ireland. Edward IV AR Penny. Second reign,1478-1483.
Dublin mint. Struck circa 1478-1483. Bust with suns and roses/Rose on cross coinage. [...]Ꞃ : DЄI : GRA[...], crowned facing bust; rose to upper left and lower right, star to upper right and lower left / [...] DVB-L[...], long cross pattée with rose at center; two roses and one sun in first and fourth quarters, two suns and one rose in second and third. SCBC 6396. Near Very Fine. Clipped and double-struck.(0.67gr, 14mm.).
ProvenanceFound Braintree, Essex, UK.
Accompanied by a copy of the British Museum's Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) report no.ESS-E0CE4C.
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Ireland. Tudor, Elizabeth I CU Penny. 1558-1603.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Tower (London) mint; i.m: martlet. Dated 1602. Third (base) coinage. (Martlet) ELIZABETH • D '. G '. AN '. FR '. ET • HIBER .' RE '., coat-of-arms; E R flanking / (Martlet) POSVI • DEV .' ADIVTOREM • MEV '., crowned harp, dividing date. SCBC 6510A. 1.81gr, 20mm, 7h.
Near Fine.
From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020). -
Ireland. Edward IV AR Penny. Second reign, 1471-1483.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £104
Dublin mint; i.m: not visible. Bust with sun and Roses/Rose on Cross coinage. Struck circa 1478-1483. Crowned facing bust; rose and sun by crown, sun and rose by neck, / Long cross pattée with small rose at center; rose and two suns and sun and two roses alternating in angles. Cf. SCBC 6396. 0.46gr, 11mm.
Good Fine. Clipped.
Found whilst searching with a metal detector near Eynsham, Oxfordshire, UK, before 1996. -
Ireland. Hanover, George I CU Farthing. 1714-1727.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Wood's mint, possibly in London or Bristol. Dated 1723. William Wood's 'Hibernia' type. GEORGIUS • DEI • GRATIA • REX •, laureate head to right / HIBERNIA • 1723 •, Hibernia seated to left on globe, holding palm frond in right hand, resting left elbow upon harp. SCBI -; SCBC 6604. 3.81gr, 22mm, 6h.
Fine.
From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020).
Though struck for circulation in Ireland, many of these farthings and halfpence were shipped to the American colonies.
