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Auction: 25021 - The Simpson Collection of Hiberno-Norse and Irish Coinage
Lot: 97

Ireland, Edward V (April - June 1483), Halfgroat, c. 1483, Dublin, EDWARD x DEI x GRA x DnS : hYB, saltire stops, colon stop before hYB, crowned bust facing, breaking incomplete double tressure of seven arcs at shoulders, rev. POSVI DEVM [trefoil] ADIVTOR ME // CIVITAS • DVBIIIN [sic], the L rendered with two Is, long cross and trio of pellets in angles, additional pellet in second and third quarter, 0.98g, no m.m. (DF -; S -), slight metal stressing to portrait and flan splits at 4 o'clock, with an historic scuff to reverse, otherwise with a uniform dark tone and hints of underlying lustre, on a pleasingly full and uniform flan, unpublished and presumed UNIQUE, of great significance to Anglo-Irish Numismatics thus

Provenance

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

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The portrait punches of this Halfgroat, with the prongs on the crown cut down, were used on Dublin pennies now attributed to Edward V (S.6393A) and of Richard III (S.6410). The portrait is diagnostic of these issues, and is attributed to 1483 and production after the Suns and Roses coinage and the death of Edward IV. This coin is the first halfgroat identified with this portrait, and has full central and lateral crown prongs, so the obverse die is necessarily earlier than those of pennies seen to date. The absence of an initial mark and the incomplete tressure are not attested to the cataloguer's knowledge on the halfgroats of Edward IV, and suggest further the attribution here to Edward V.

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£14,000

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£1500