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Auction: 25021 - The Simpson Collection of Hiberno-Norse and Irish Coinage
Lot: 37

Hiberno-Norse (c. 1065-1100), Phase V, 'Ringerike / Long Cross' Type, Penny, Dublin, stylised legend, annulet with pellet at centre of four croziers in saltire, reversed S to left, inverted scourge [?] to right, rev. stylised legend, voided long cross, pellet in first, crude hand in second, third unclear, pellet in fourth, 0.84g (SCBI 22 [Copenhagen], 269-273; SCBI 32 [Ulster Museum], 350-35; SCBI 8 [British Museum] 211-214; Roth 173 same dies; S.6182), weakly struck in parts as usual for type, otherwise richly cabinet toned, about very fine for issue, very rare

Provenance

The John Noel Simpson Collection of English, Irish and Hiberno-Norse Coins

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£650