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Auction: 25021 - The Simpson Collection of Hiberno-Norse and Irish Coinage
Lot: 121

Ireland, Henry VIII, with Anne Boleyn (1509-1547), First Harp Issue, Halfgroat, 1534-1535, Tower, hENRIC '. 8 D '. G '. R AGL '. Z, saltire stops, saltire below IM and H, crowned shield over cross fourchée, rev. . FRANCE : DNS ': hIBERNIE .:, single and double saltire stops, crowned harp dividing crowned H-A, 1.21g, 6h, m.m. crown (DF 206; LaRiviere 78 = Comber 288; S.6476), soft to tops of devices, otherwise lightly toned, a bolder fine / fine, extremely rare

Provenance

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



Twenty-one specimens were known to Seaby, of which sixteen were impounded in museums, known to Seaby. cf. The half-harps of Henry VIII's Irish coinage [BNJ, 1987]

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£7,500

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