The ‘Good Money’ Collection of Irish Hammered Coins

Hiberno-Scandinavian period, Phase V, Penny, Dublin, in imitation of Long Cross coinage, draped bust left, hand on neck, cross pommée before eye, trefoil of pellets by tip of nose, rev. long voided cross, nothing in quarters, blundered legends both sides, 0.69g/11h (cf. SCBI BM 163 [obv.]; SCBI Copenhagen –; cf. SCBI Ulster 254 [obv.]; cf. Roth 129; cf. S 6138; DF 28). Reverse fine, obverse better with details clear, excessively rare £600-£800

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The ‘Good Money’ Collection of Irish Hammered Coins.

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S.N. Lane Collection; bt C.J. Denton

A crude and lightweight imitation with an unusual unornamented reverse but incorporating obverse symbols from the earlier phase III coinage