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Auction: 25021 - The Simpson Collection of Hiberno-Norse and Irish Coinage
Lot: 111

Ireland, Henry VII (1485-1509), Second Period, Class I, Late Portrait Issues, Groat, c. 1496-1505, Dublin, + hENRICVS : D[E]I [] GRA DnS : hYBERn, colon stops, 'open' crowned bust facing, inside unbroken tressure, fleurs on cusps, rev. + POSVI DEVM ADIVTORE MEVM // CIVITAS DVBLINIE, long cross, with trio of pellets in angles, 1.82g, 1h, m.m. plain cross / pierced cross (DF 193; S.6451), struck on an irregular flan, and with ghosting to obverse otherwise toned, largely fine and pleasing in hand, rare

Provenance

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



Once given to Henry VI and in the style of Edward IV groats, but systematically lighter than Edward IV groats of the 1470s and with pellet rather than saltire stops.

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Sold for
£130

Starting price
£70