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Auction: 25021 - The Simpson Collection of Hiberno-Norse and Irish Coinage
Lot: 72

Ireland, Edward I (1272-1307), Second Coinage, Intermediate Issues, Penny, struck February 1295 - February 1297, under Thomas Fitzgerald, 2nd Baron Desmond, Cork, EDWR ' ANGL' DNS hYB, Ns retrograde, crowned facing bust in triangle with pellet in each angle, with "stringy" hair, rev. CIVITAS CORCAGIE, long cross, with trio of pellets in angles, 1.16g, 10h (S.6262) softly struck, with dark tone to depths of fields, good fine, excessively rare

Provenance

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



This penny is a representative of the approximately £400.0.0 coined by the first incarnation of the Cork Mint between February 1295 and February 1297; Cassidy, The Irish Exchanges and Mints in the Reign of Edward I, BNJ 2017). The mint owed its existence to the unexpected elevation of Thomas Fitzgerald, Second Baron Desmond, to justiciary (political chief executive by local election, rather than royal appointment) of Ireland for 168 days in 1295, following the sudden death of Edward's appointed incumbent while Fitzgerald was in Dublin.

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Sold for
£1,100

Starting price
£300