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Auction: 25021 - The Simpson Collection of Hiberno-Norse and Irish Coinage
Lot: 115

Ireland, Henry VII (1485-1509), Third Period, Class IIa, Late Portrait Issues, Halfgroat, c. 1496-1505, Dublin, [hENRIC DI GRA R]EX ANGLI FRAN, crowned facing bust within fleured tressure, inverted V below, rev. POXVI DEVM DEVM [...] // CIVITAS DUXLLIN [sic], X over S in POSVI, C and L double-punched, long cross with trio of pellets in angles, 0.90g, 1h, no m.m. (cf. G E Chapman, Glendining, 9 November 1978, lot 219; DF 196 [ER]; S.6467 same obverse die as plate coin[SNC, February 1998, no. 82]), bent and re-straightened, with resultant stress fracture between 2 and 6 o'clock, otherwise largely uniform, a bolder fine and extremely rare

Provenance

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

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£800

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£200