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Auction: 367 - The NYINC Numismatic Collector's Series Sale - Conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 145

Ireland, Henry VI, Readepted (1470-71), Groat, Light Coinage, Cork, John Fannyng (Mintmaster), hENRICVS DEI GRA DNS iBERNIE, NRICVS over DWARD, crowned bust facing in tressure of nine arches, rosettes beside busts, rev. POSVI D | EV AD. | IVTOR * | MEVM, long cross, trio of pellets in angles, CIVI | TAS * | CORC | ACIE, O over A in CORC, 2.62g, 2h (Simon [1810] -; Lindsay [1839] -; DF -; S -), a field find with scuffing to face, otherwise dark patination, good very fine, from previously unrecorded dies, and one of only three coins identified for Cork, of the highest rarity and greatest significance to Anglo-Irish numismatics thus

This important discovery coin was the subject of a comprehensive article in our Spink Insider (Autumn, 2020) by Oisín Mac Conamhna outlining its importance within his reappraisal of the Anglo-Irish coin series

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Sold for
$32,000

Starting price
$6000