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Auction: 25021 - The Simpson Collection of Hiberno-Norse and Irish Coinage
Lot: 80

Ireland, Edward IV, Second Reign (1471-1483), Light "Cross and Pellets" Coinage, Groat, current November 1470, Second Issue, Drogheda, [i.m.] EDVARDVS . DEI . GRA . REX ANGLI, English titles only, rosette stops, crowned bust facing of local (Yorkist) style, flanked by trefoils at neck, in tressure with four fleurs, saltire in spandrel below bust rev. POSVI + DEVM [x] ADIVTORE MEVM // : VILLA DROGh : EDA, single and double saltire stops, long cross, trio of pellets in angles, 2.48g, 12h, i.m. rosette/none (National Museum of Ireland-HC:2002.1140 same dies = DF 159 ["Fifth Coinage"] = S.6356 [6329] ~ 'Only one Groat assigned here') slightly waterworn, otherwise toned and on a fuller flan, the critical legend variety clear, almost very fine, excessively rare, only one other example identified, an inferior die duplicate in the National Museum of Ireland

Provenance

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



Yorkist coin of local dies most likely struck during or immediately after the readeption of Henry VI, the twenty-first specimen of the type and the second of this die pair known to cataloguer.

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Sold for
£2,800

Starting price
£600