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Auction: 25021 - The Simpson Collection of Hiberno-Norse and Irish Coinage
Lot: 171

Ireland, Issues of the City and Walled Towns of Cork, Sixpence, 1647, Cork, CO[RK] 16[47] in two lines within beaded circle, rev. large V and smaller I within beaded circle, 2.25g, 3h (S.6561A) flat on over half of the reverse and approximately a quarter of the reverse, from the recognised and apparently unique die pair used for this denomination, fine

Provenance

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



A product of the third and last incarnation of the Cork mint, during its occupation by Parliamentarian troops under Muchadh Ua Briain, descendant of Briain Bóramha and of the royal house of Thomond, a.k.a. the sixth baron Inchiquin, during his phase of Parliamentarian allegiance.

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Sold for
£650

Starting price
£420