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Auction: 25021 - The Simpson Collection of Hiberno-Norse and Irish Coinage
Lot: 146

Ireland, Elizabeth I (1558-1603), Third Coinage, Very Base Threepence, Tower, 20 May 1601-24 May 1602, ELIZA[BETH . D '. G '. ]AN '. FR '. ET . H[ ], shield, rev. PO[SVI . DEVM .] ADIVTORE[M . MEV '.] , crowned harp, 1.37g, 10h, m.m. star (DF 254; S.6509), flan chipped from 4-9 o'clock on obverse, prominent old scratches on and to the right of harp, areas of weakness of strike, but the scarcest denomination of the coinage and otherwise very fine

Provenance

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



£5,200 of the bullion used to strike IM star pieces of the coinage, including possibly this one, came from a Spanish ship captured in the Channel in Autumn 1601 (Symonds, Numismatic Chronicle 1916 115).

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£110

Starting price
£70