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Auction: 25021 - The Simpson Collection of Hiberno-Norse and Irish Coinage
Lot: 95

Ireland (Late 15th Century), Light Issue, Groat, Dublin, hERIC[VS DEI G]RA REX hBERRE [?], legend unclear but possibly commencing at 11 o'clock [?], crowned bust facing, voided quatrefoils [four leaf clover ?] by neck, rev. POSVI D[EVM ADIVTORE MEVM] // CIVITAS DVBLINIE, reversed E for D in DVBL, ornate I letter form, outer legend starts at 9 o'clock, long cross and trio of pellets in angles, 1.36g, 3h, no m.m. (DF -; S.-), struck on a short flan from rusted dies to portrait, the the obverse die otherwise unrecorded and unknown to this cataloguer, of excellent metal, richly cabinet toned, very fine, and presumed extremely rare

Provenance

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



The other possibility for the mysterious 'hBERRE' reading is FRANC. As such, English and French titles are known otherwise on Dublin Groats of Edward IV only for some Suns & Roses of 1479-1483. The ornate I punch on reverse apparently common with that of the Suns & Roses Coinage of Drogheda (1483) and the Cross-on-Rose coinage (debated, but by new punch evidence 1479-83) arguing for a late date 1478-1483.

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£2,000

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£100