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Auction: 25021 - The Simpson Collection of Hiberno-Norse and Irish Coinage
Lot: 127

Ireland, Edward VI, in the name of Henry VIII (1547-1553), Sixth Harp Issue, Sixpenny-Groat, 1547, in 0.250 Very Base Silver, Bristol, Under-Treasurer William Sharrington, hENRIC' [ ] 8 [DEI] GRACI AGLI, crowned shield over cross fourchée, rev. FRANCIE : ET[ : hIBERN]IE : REX [:], no regnal year, crowned harp dividing crowned h-R, 2.46g, 12h, i.m. WS (DF 211; S.6484A), small flan split to edge at 5 o'clock, fine, a specimen of the rarest type of harp groat and the only type to be struck under Edward VI

Provenance

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

With printed collector's ticket



The terminus of the reverse inscription is determined by its die parallel with Carlyon-Britton's, Henry VIII Harp Groats and Harp Half-Groats and Edward VI Harp Groats, Plate X, coin 14, Numismatic Chronicle 1954, which clinches the attribution to Edward VI.

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Sold for
£190

Starting price
£150