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Auction: 25021 - The Simpson Collection of Hiberno-Norse and Irish Coinage
Lot: 165

Ireland, Great Rebellion, Issues of the Confederated Catholics, Kilkenny Money, Halfpenny, 1642-1643, inscription starts at 7 o'clock, [CA]ROLV[S . D . G . ] MAG . [BRI .], crown on crossed sceptres within a beaded circle with a second beaded circle outside inscription, rev. [F]R[?] AN . E[T HI]B [E]R . REX., crowned harp dividing C R, 5.12g, 7h, [m.m. ?] (DF 263; S.6555), ill-struck as usual for the issue, with large areas of weakness, some corrosion and discolouration with verdigris, otherwise about very fine, a more than presentable example of this lauded 'Money of Necessity'

Provenance

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

SCMB, March 1981, K2 - 'R, good F for issue' - £80 [with ticket]

H A Pegg, Spink 11, 8-9 October 1980, lot 784 [part] [with his ticket]

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Sold for
£220

Starting price
£70