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Auction: 25021 - The Simpson Collection of Hiberno-Norse and Irish Coinage
Lot: 125

Ireland, Henry VIII (1509-1547), Fifth Harp Issue, Sixpenny-Groat, 1544-1546, in .500 Base Silver, Southwark [?], (m.m.) hENRIC VIII : D GRACI AGLIE :, single and double saltire stops, crowned shield over cross fourchée, rev. FRANCIE : ET : HIBERNIE : REX . S, saltire colons and pellet [?] stop, crowned harp dividing crowned h-R, 2.42g, 7h, m.m. lis / S [Southwark ?] (DF 209; S.6483), some old scratches on obverse and on an irregular flan, toned, a really bold fine

Provenance

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

With printed collector's ticket



The obverse inscription unrecorded by Carlyon-Britton, Henry VIII Harp Groats and Harp Half-Groats and Edward VI Harp Groats, Numismatic Chronicle 1954.

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£150

Starting price
£100