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Auction: 25021 - The Simpson Collection of Hiberno-Norse and Irish Coinage
Lot: 38

Hiberno-Norse (c. 1065-1100), Phase V, 'Small Flan/Pointed Helmet' Type, Penny, Dublin, stylised legend, crude bust left, rev. stylised legend, voided short cross, in imitation of Edward the Confessor, large annulets in angles, 0.57g (SCBI 32 [Ulster Museum] -; cf. SCBI 8 [British Museum] 218 [without annulets]; SCBI 22 [Copenhagen] -; S.-), struck soft to obverse peripheries, and with some ghosting to portrait, otherwise of excellent fabric, about very fine with accentuating cabinet tone in recesses, an excessively rare variety

Provenance

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



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Sold for
£700

Starting price
£300