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Auction: 25021 - The Simpson Collection of Hiberno-Norse and Irish Coinage
Lot: 116

Ireland, Henry VII (1485-1509), Contemporary Counterfeits of Late Portrait Issues, Groats (2), Dublin, [...]IVDOIAVDIL[...], from 9 o'clock, blundered legends, crowned bust facing, in plain tressure, rev CI[VI]TAS DVBLINIE, long cross, with trio of pellets in angles, 1.31g; another, NA[...]IVONCAEVOARVI[...]ICV, crowned bust with no tressure, rev. CIVI-TA[S] DVDNIB (reversed E), reversed E for D, long cross, with trio of pellets in angles, 1.13g, 6h, first with an obverse from an unofficial-looking die, very good, second fine; an interesting academic pairing! (2)

Provenance

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



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