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Auction: 25021 - The Simpson Collection of Hiberno-Norse and Irish Coinage
Lot: 263

Irish Civil War, James II (1685-1691), Emergency 'Pewter Money', Pewter and Copper-Plugged Halfpenny, 1690, Type I, bust with short hair left, rev. date over crowned harp, copper alloy plug through flan, 3.20g, 12h (S.6591), porosity to the flan, large plug, fine; and more, Pewter and Copper-Plugged Halfpennies (2), 1690, but Type II, smaller laureate head left, rev. crown divides date, copper alloy plug through flan, 4.69g, 12h; 4.37g, 12h (S.6592), one much more worn than the other but reverse better, fair to fine, the other near very fine (3)

Provenance

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



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