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Auction: 25021 - The Simpson Collection of Hiberno-Norse and Irish Coinage
Lot: 181

Ireland, Commonwealth [?] (1649-1660), Farthing, Youghal, ship on shield within toothed circle, rev. Y.T within concentric beaded circles [?],1.70g, (A. Smith 1860, Money of Necessity Issued in Ireland in the Reign of Charles I, The Journal of the Kilkenny and South-East of Ireland Archaeological Society, 140 No. 6 [apparently this type]; S.-), corroded and discoloured with verdigris but essential identifying features visible, very rare, poor/fair

Provenance

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



Attributed by Aquilla Smith to 1646 but the absence of a date and the more ornate type to the 1646 farthings suggest to this cataloguer that it may be slightly later, possibly contemporary with the Kinsale issue of 1653.

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