Irish Coins & Tokens

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Irish / American (Colonial)

Halfpennies

 

WU-4742:  1674 Irish / American “St Patrick’s” Copper Halfpenny.  Struck by Mark Newby in Dublin (Ireland), circa 1670-75 and bought to New Jersey soon after.  The coinage was made legal tender by the General Assembly of New Jersey in May 1682.  This coin has unusually good detail as well as unusual “punches”.  A rare coin.  See USA section

 

WU-4281:  1760 Irish / American “VOCE POPULI” Cent.  Nice grade – Nelson 12 variety.  See USA section

 

WI-4747:  1722 Irish / American Woods Halfpenny.  Much rarer first issue.  Used as currency in America from the 1720's onwards.  £149

 

WI-5529:  1722 Irish / American Woods Halfpenny.  Much rarer first issue.  Used as currency in America from the 1720's onwards.  £109

 

WI-4748:  1722 Irish / American Woods Halfpenny.  Second issue.  Used as currency in America from the 1720's onwards.  £75

 

WI-2777:  1723 Irish / American Woods 1/2d.  Used as currency in America from the 1720's onwards.  £75

 

WI-4700:  1724 Irish / American Woods 1/2d.  Used as currency in America from the 1720's onwards.  Porous.  A very much rarer date.  £79

 

WI-4749:  1724 Irish / American Woods 1/2d.  Used as currency in America from the 1720's onwards.  A very much rarer date.  £79

 

 

 

Farthings

 

WI-1955:  Good Grade Irish-American "Woods" 1723 Farthing.  1/4d's are rarer than 1/2d's.  This is a pleasing example.  £55

 

 

 

 

Irish James II "Gun" Money

 

Full  CROWNS

 

WI-5434:  1690 Irish Gun Money Full Crown.  Struck over a large Gun Money half crown.  Higher grade example thus rare.  £229

 

WI-5435:  1690 Irish Gun Money Full Crown.  Struck over a large Gun Money half crown.  Higher grade example but damage at 6 o’clock thus cheaper.  £165

 

WI-5436:  1690 Irish Gun Money Full Crown.  Struck over a large Gun Money half crown.  Nice grade example.  £199

 

 

 

1/2 CROWNS

 

WI-4799:  1689 Irish Gun Money Half Crown.  Struck February.  Higher grade example thus rare.  £145

 

WI-4975:  1689 Irish Gun Money Half Crown.  Struck September.  Attractive coin.  £75

 

WI-4603:  1690 Irish Gun Money Half Crown.  Indeterminable month – rusty dies?  Cheaper example.  £49

 

WI-5114:  1690 Irish Gun Money Half Crown.  Struck May.  Superb example.  £125

 

WI-5437:  1690 Irish Gun Money Half Crown.  Struck March.  Nice grade.  £165

 

WI-5438:  1689 Irish Gun Money Half Crown.  Struck October.  Very nice grade.  £175

 

WI-5439:  1690 Irish Gun Money Half Crown.  Struck July.  £98

 

 

 

Shillings

 

WI-4811:  1690 Irish Gun Money Shilling.  Struck May.  High grade example.  £69

 

WI-3463:  1690 Irish Gun Money Shilling.  Small issue, struck June 1690.  £79

 

WI-4772:  1690 Irish Gun Money Shilling.  Small issue, struck June 1690 but the very rare JUNC variation (Spink 6582-GG) struck on a thin flan.  High catalogue value.  £129

 

WI-5440:  1689 Irish Gun Money Shilling.  Struck February 1689.  £75

 

WI-5441:  1689 Irish Gun Money Shilling.  Struck January 1689.  £89

 

WI-5442:  1689 Irish Gun Money Shilling.  Struck August 1689.  £89

 

WI-5443:  1689 Irish Gun Money Shilling.  Struck August 1689.  £76

 

WI-5444:  1690 Irish Gun Money Shilling.  Struck March 1690.  £76

 

WI-5445:  1689 Irish Gun Money Shilling.  Struck July 1689.  £95

 

WI-5446:  1690 Irish Gun Money Shilling.  Small issue, struck June 1690.  £69

 

 

 

Sixpences

 

WI-3727:  1689 Irish Gun Money Sixpence.  Struck February.  Rarer denomination.  £85

 

WI-4743:  1689 Irish Gun Money Sixpence.  Struck December.  Rarer denomination.  £79

 

 

 

 

Irish "Confederate Catholics" Issue

 

WI-5485: 1642-44 Charles 1st Irish Confederate Catholics Issue Halfpenny.  Struck in Kilkenny by the Irish Catholics who remained loyal to Charles 1st.  It was a very crude issue (shape, die and strike) with very few examples surviving due to the nature of the metal.  A rare early Irish coin.  £385

 

 

 

Irish James II Emergency "Pewter" Money

 

WI-5231:  1690 Irish James II Emergency PEWTER Halfpenny.  A very rare issue that was an add-on to the Gun Money issue.  Pewter with a brass insert, very much along the lines of the English tin with brass insert issues of Charles II, James II, and William &Mary.  The few examples that I’ve seen in private collections have been corroded and of a lesser grade than this coin.  A rare coin in this grade.  £625

 

 

 

Irish James II " Siege  of Limerick" Money

 

WI-4046:  1691 Irish Limerick Besieged Halfpenny.  Single year issue.  Struck over a large Gun Money shilling whilst James was besieged at Limerick.  This one high grade for issue with some host coin detail visible.  Rare in this grade.  £289

 

WI-4353:  1691 Irish Limerick Besieged Halfpenny.  Single year issue.  Struck over a large Gun Money shilling whilst James was besieged at Limerick although this one with minimal host coin showing.  Most unusual in the placement of the bust on the obverse die – the legend has actually been spaced to accommodate the bust.  Rare coin with an unusual feature.  £189

 

 

 

 

Pre 1650 "Hammered" Coinage

 

Prince John

 

 

King John

 

WI-4447:  Irish King John Medieval Penny.  Hammered silver, REX coinage (1207-11), ROBERD-ON-DIVE (Dublin).  £155

 

 

 

Henry III

 

WI-2742:  Irish Henry III Medieval Penny.  Hammered silver, Dublin mint (RICARD).  £109

 

 

 

Edward I

 

WI-3508:  Irish Edward I Hammered Silver Penny.  Waterford mint, class 1b.  Good grade.  £99

 

WI-3626:  Irish Edward 1st Hammered Silver Penny.  Dublin mint, class 1a, nice grade.  £79

 

WI-4741:  Irish Edward 1st Hammered Silver HALFPENNY.  Second coinage, Dublin mint.  £99

 

WI-5519:  Irish Edward I Hammered Silver Penny.  Waterford mint, second coinage, trefoil of pellets.  Good grade.  £99

 

 

 

Edward IV

Sun & Roses Issue

 

WI-5165:  Irish Edward IV Hammered Silver Penny.  Sun & Rose type, 1479 – 1483.  Type 1, Dublin mint.  £189

 

WI-5279:  Irish Edward IV Hammered Silver Penny.  Sun & Rose type, 1479 – 1483.  Strong portrait, some legend remaining.   Interesting die flaw on obverse.  Burns’ S-2 Dublin.  £195

 

WI-5280:  Irish Edward IV Hammered Silver Penny.  Sun & Rose type, 1479 – 1483.  Much legend remaining.   Burns’ S-3 Dublin.  £175

 

WI-5281:  Irish Edward IV Hammered Silver Penny.  Sun & Rose type, 1479 – 1483.  Much legend remaining.   Burns’ S-3 Dublin.  £185

 

 

 

Cross & Pellets “HEAVY” issue

 

WI-5208:  Irish Edward IV Hammered Silver Penny.  Standard cross & pellets issue but the much rarer Heavy coinage of 1465 (ref. Burns’).  Extra pellet in two of the reverse quarters.  DV on reverse signifies Dublin mint.  Less clipping than usual and a very strong portrait being slightly better than the Spink plate coin.  Heavy issue coins rarely turn up.  £225

 

WI-5282:  Irish Edward IV Hammered Silver Penny.  Standard cross & pellets issue but the much rarer Heavy coinage of 1465 (ref. Burns’).  Not far off a full flan with initial mark being visible.  Burn’s DU-1H (type 1).  £195

 

WI-5283:  Irish Edward IV Hammered Silver Penny.  Standard cross & pellets issue but the much rarer Heavy coinage of 1465 (ref. Burns’).  An unrecorded coin in Spink and more importantly, unrecorded in Burn’s due to the small pellet(s) at the neck.  It is a type 13 coin but an unrecorded variation of DU-11b.  Strong bust, initial mark visible.  £245

 

 

 

Cross & Pellets “LIGHT” issue

 

WI-4127:  Irish Edward IV Hammered Silver Penny.  Dublin mint, 1470-78 issue.  The whole issue is clipped – this has some legend remaining.  £95

 

WI-4193:  Irish Edward IV Hammered Silver Penny.  Dublin mint, 1470-78 issue.  The whole issue is clipped – this has some legend remaining.  £99

 

WI-5035:  Irish Edward IV Hammered Silver Penny.  Dublin mint, 1470-78 issue.  The whole issue is clipped – this has most of the king’s name in the legend remaining.  £105

 

WI-5284:  Irish Edward IV Hammered Silver Penny.  Dublin mint, 1470-78 issue.  Distinctive portrait style F, Dublin mint, Burns’ DU-6a (type 6).  £95

 

WI-5484:  Irish Edward IV Hammered Silver Penny.  Dublin mint, 1470-78 issue.  Dublin mint.  Minimal circulation wear together with relatively little clipping for issue.  Contemporary planchets flaw at 9 o’clock.  Whilst this appears to be Burn’s Du-6a (Type 6), the portrait is not Burn’s F – note the uneven length of the hair which is of the same length in Burn’s F.  However, there are several indicators on this bust that do match Burn’s F so the conclusion must be that this coin is an unrecorded sub-class?  That aside, it is a nice coin in its own right.  £145

 

 

 

Henry VII

 

WI-5278:  Irish Henry VII Hammered Silver Half Groat.  Early Three-Crowns issue of 1485-87.  This half groat denomination is hugely underrated as it hardly ever turns up outside of collections being auctioned off.  £480

 

WI-5343:  Irish Henry VII Hammered Silver Groat.  Late portrait issue of 1496 – 1505.  Dublin mint.  Class 1A, full flan, about VF for issue.  Ex Spink.  £425

 

 

 

Henry VIII

 

WI-4084:  Irish Henry VIII Hammered Silver Groat.  Third (3rd) Harp Issue, 1543, mm rose.  “HR” by harp.  Nice grade.  £195

 

WI-4086:  Irish Henry VIII Hammered Silver Six Penny Groat.  Fourth (4th) Harp Issue, 1544, mm lis.  “HR” by harp.  Nice grade.  £195

 

 

 

Edward VI

 

WI-4858:  Irish Henry VIII Dublin Hammered Threepence.  Actually struck under Edward VI, 1547-50.  Type IV, Dublin mint.  Strong detail on this debased silver issue.  £145

 

WI-5401:  Irish Henry VIII Hammered Silver Six Penny Groat struck under Edward VI.  Class IV, 1547-50, Dublin mint.  High grade for issue.  A delightful coin with copper showing through (Henry VIII was famous for saving money by debasing the silver coinage) making it fairly obvious where the Tudor people got “Old Copper Nose” from as a reference to the monarch!!  £480

 

 

 

Philip & Mary

 

WI-5363:  1556 Philip & Mary Irish Facing Busts Groat.  Debased hammered silver, about VF grade for this poor issue.  £295

 

 

 

Elizabeth 1st

 

WI-5344:  1561 Irish Elizabeth 1st Hammered Silver Shilling.  Fine issue coinage, single year issue.  Very good grade for issue.  A slightly better grade example recently sold in the June 2011 Spink auction (lot # 770) for £1,400 with fees on top.  This one cheap at £395

 

WI-5542:  1601 Irish Elizabeth 1st Hammered Copper Penny.  Initial mark Star and on a generous planchets.  Most of these coins come out of the ground (it is interesting to note that examples have been unearthed from the Jamestown site in America, along with later James 1st hammered silver coinage) and as a result the copper corrodes.  This is a very nice example with clear detail.  £135

 

 

 

James 1st

 

WI-3012:  Irish James 1st Hammered Silver 6d.  1604-7.  A good grade example of a usually poorly struck obverse issue.  £125

 

 

 

The Colin Cooke Irish Milled Collection

All coins from this collection sold with Colin Cooke labels & annotated paper coin envelopes unless otherwise stated.

 

WI-5051:  1680 Irish Copper Halfpenny, Large Letters.  Ex Colin Cooke collection.  £125

 

WI-5052:  1680 Irish Copper Halfpenny, Large Letters.  Ex Colin Cooke collection.  £90

 

WI-5055:  1682 Irish Copper Halfpenny, Small Letters.  Ex Colin Cooke collection.  £115

 

WI-5056:  1683 Irish Copper Halfpenny.  Ex Colin Cooke collection.  £95

 

WI-5057:  1684 Irish Copper Halfpenny, Rare Date.  Ex Colin Cooke collection – written on envelope:  “The only example I’ve ever seen”.  £395

 

WI-5058:  1685 Irish Copper Halfpenny.  Ex Colin Cooke collection.  £95

 

WI-5059:  1686 Irish Copper Halfpenny.  Ex Colin Cooke collection.  £160

 

WI-5060:  1688 Irish Copper Halfpenny, Rarer Date.  Ex Colin Cooke collection.  £185

 

WI-5061:  1688 Irish Copper Halfpenny, Rarer Date, Unrecorded Variety.  Ex Colin Cooke collection.  £275

 

WI-5062:  1692 Irish Copper Halfpenny.  Ex Colin Cooke collection.  £165

 

WI-5063:  1693 Irish Copper Halfpenny.  Ex Colin Cooke collection.  £185

 

WI-5064:  1694 Irish Copper Halfpenny.  Ex Colin Cooke collection.  £85

 

WI-5065:  1696 Irish Copper Halfpenny, Draped Bust.  Ex Colin Cooke collection.  £95

 

WI-5066:  1696 Irish Copper Halfpenny, Undraped Bust.  Excessively rare.  Ex Colin Cooke collection.  £285

 

WI-5067:  1722 Irish Wood’s Copper Halfpenny.  Type 1.  Ex Colin Cooke collection.  £195

 

WI-5068:  1722 Irish Wood’s Copper Halfpenny.  Type 2.  Ex Colin Cooke collection – written on envelope:  “Rarer than the type 1”.  £165

 

WI-5069:  1722/3 Irish Wood’s Copper Halfpenny.  Ex Colin Cooke collection.  £125

 

WI-5070:  1723 Irish Wood’s Copper Halfpenny.  Ex Colin Cooke collection.  £59

 

WI-5071:  1723 Irish Wood’s Copper Halfpenny.  Ex Colin Cooke collection.  £65

 

WI-5072:  1723 Irish Wood’s Copper Halfpenny.  Ex Colin Cooke collection.  £95

 

WI-5073:  1724 Irish Wood’s Copper Halfpenny.  Ex Colin Cooke collection.  £95

 

WI-5074:  1725 Irish Wood’s Copper Halfpenny!!  Altered date in antiquity but very well done.  Ex Colin Cooke collection.  £185

 

WI-5075:  1736 Irish  Copper Halfpenny - Proof.  Ex Colin Cooke collection.  £225

 

WI-5076:  1737 Irish  Copper Halfpenny.  Ex Colin Cooke collection.  £25

 

WI-5077:  1741 Irish  Copper Halfpenny.  Ex Colin Cooke collection.  £30

 

WI-5078:  1742 Irish  Copper Halfpenny.  Ex Colin Cooke collection.  £35

 

WI-5079:  1743 Irish  Copper Halfpenny.  Ex Colin Cooke collection.  £65

 

WI-5081:  1746 Irish  Copper Halfpenny.  Ex Colin Cooke collection.  £65

 

WI-5082:  1747 Irish  Copper Halfpenny.  Ex Colin Cooke collection.  £25

 

WI-5089:  1760 Irish “VOCE POPULI” Copper Halfpenny.  Type 7.  Ex Colin Cooke collection.  £860

 

WI-5090:  1760 Irish “VOCE POPULI” Copper Halfpenny.  Type 9.  Ex Colin Cooke collection.  £290

 

WI-5091:  1760 Irish “VOCE POPULI” Copper Halfpenny.  Type 5.  Ex Colin Cooke collection.  £375

 

WI-5092:  1760 Irish “VOCE POPULI” Copper Halfpenny.  Type 4.  Ex Colin Cooke collection.  £345

 

WI-5093:  1760 Irish “VOCE POPULI” Copper Halfpenny.  Type 9, P below.  Ex Colin Cooke collection.  £395

 

WI-5094:  1760 Irish “VOCE POPULI” Copper Halfpenny.  Type 9.  Ex Colin Cooke collection.  £340

 

WI-5095:  1766 Irish Copper Halfpenny.  Seriously off-struck AND a stated Proof on Colin Cooke envelope!!  Ex Colin Cooke collection.  £325

 

WI-5096:  1766 Irish Copper Halfpenny.  Ex Colin Cooke collection.  £95

 

WI-5097:  1769 Irish Copper Halfpenny.  Ex Colin Cooke collection.  £40

 

WI-5098:  1769 Irish Copper Halfpenny.  Ex Colin Cooke collection.  £45

 

WI-5099:  1775 Irish Copper Halfpenny - Proof.  Ex Colin Cooke collection.  £270

 

WI-5100:  1775 Irish Copper Halfpenny - Proof.  Unbarred A.  Ex Colin Cooke collection.  £325

 

WI-5102:  1781 Irish Copper Halfpenny.  Die axis error.  Ex Colin Cooke collection.  £95

 

WI-5103:  1782 Irish Copper Halfpenny - Proof.  Ex Colin Cooke collection.  £260

 

WI-5104:  1805 Irish Copper Halfpenny.  Ex Colin Cooke collection.  £85

 

WI-5105:  1805 Irish Copper Halfpenny.  Ex Colin Cooke collection.  £65

 

WI-5106:  1805 Irish Silver 10 Pence & 5 Pence - Proofs.  Not listed as being struck in proof but very proof-like & “Proofs” written on envelope.  Ex Colin Cooke collection.  £180

 

WI-5107:  1813 Irish Silver 10 Pence - Proof.  Ex Colin Cooke collection.  £275

 

WI-5108:  1822 Irish Copper Halfpenny.  Ex Colin Cooke collection.  £35

 

WI-5109:  1823 Irish Copper Halfpenny.  Ex Colin Cooke collection.  £65

 

 

 

Pre 1800 "Milled" Coinage

 

WI-3914:  Irish Charles II Halfpenny, 1680.  Armstrong & Legge issue.  Very nice grade.  £99

 

WI-4699:  Irish Charles II Halfpenny, 1680.  Armstrong & Legge issue.  Lovely grade coin.  Note the different reverse and obverse dies compared to WI-3914.  With this coin, the loop of the 1 in 1680 falls within the X of REX and the king has the beginnings of a double chin.  A nice example with the harp strings (x14) being particularly clear.  £99

 

WI-3398:  Irish James II Halfpenny, 1686.  “Regular” coinage, x14 strings to harp.  £79

 

WI-3709:  Irish William & Mary Halfpenny, 1692.  Dublin.  Rusty obverse die.  Good grade.  £55

 

WI-3383:  Irish 1694 William & Mary Halfpenny.  Struck Dublin, very good grade for issue.  £109

 

WI-5358:  1709 Queen Anne Irish Coin weight.  Gold and silver coinage from Europe and beyond freely circulated in Ireland as currency.  The coin weight was issued to check the authenticity of the English gold guinea.  £85

 

WI-3819:  Irish 1737 Brass Regal Coin Weight.  Official weight for the Portuguese gold 4 Escudos coins (14.0 grams) which were legal tender in Ireland at this time as there was a severe shortage of all coinage but especially high denomination coinage.  The date 1737 is interesting as it corresponds with the Irish Coin Directive date.  £95

 

WI-4936:  Irish 1737 Halfpenny.  George II, better grade.  £34

 

WI-4101:  Irish 1744 Farthing.  George II, nice grade.  £39

 

WI-3608:  Irish 1750 Halfpenny.  Lovely grade.  Type III.  £49

 

WI-3609:  Irish 1752 Halfpenny.  Good grade.  Type III.  £39

 

WI-4750:  Irish 1766 Copper Halfpenny.  Not a rare coin by any means but an interesting one none the less!  Deliberately (crudely) altered in antiquity to read 1760 and George II.  Why?!  £16

 

WI-4797:  Irish 1782 Halfpenny.  Better grade example thus rare.  £59

 

 

 

Post 1800 Coinage

1d’s

 

WI-3123:  1805 Irish Large Penny.  Very good grade thus rare.  Large pennies are much, much rarer than the halfpennies.  £59

 

WI-3337:  About EF Grade 1805 Irish Large Penny.  Very rare in this grade.  £95

 

WI-3133:  High Grade Irish 1823 Large Penny.  Under George IV.  Much rarer denomination & high grade.  £75

 

1/2d’s

 

WI-3529:  Irish Geo IV Copper 1/2d, 1822.  Better grade.  £19

 

WI-5290:  1823 Irish George IV Halfpenny.  Decent grade and cheap.  £18

 

1/4d’s

 

WI-3820:  1806 Irish George III Farthing.  Nice grade, lovely toning.  £29

 

 

 

Tokens “1” - general

 

WI-3742:  1794 Conder Trade Token - Irish Dublin.  Unusual.  £25

 

WI-4444:  1794 Irish Conder Trade Token – Cork.  For the Convenience of the Public”.  Plain edge, rarer type.  £19

 

WI-4918:  1813 Irish George III Silver 10 Pence Bank Token.  An attractive and uncommon denomination in better grade than the image suggests (the hair detail is obvious on the token itself).  £18

 

WI-3063:  1814 Irish Wellington Large 1d Token.  Good grade for issue.  £45

 

WI-4370:  1820 Irish Copper Trade Penny.  “One Penny Token”, Dublin.  No host coin visible.  Slightly rusty dies and die flaw (reverse, after “D”).  A good VF and a very nice token.  £59

 

WI-3284:  1834 Irish Trade Farthing.  Dublin, Cork & Limerick.  £29

 

WI-3797:  1840's Irish (Dublin) Merchants’ Token.  Bust of Victoria.  £29

 

WI-5175:  1840’s Irish (Dublin) Merchants’ Token.  Scott Bell, drapers & hosiers.  High grade with superb toning thus rare.  £36

 

 

 

Tokens “2” – being from an old Irish Token collection

 

WI-3631:  1789 Irish Mines Trade “Conder” Token.  Chronebane halfpenny, Dublin.  £28

 

WI-3341:  1814 Irish Penny Token – Wellington.  Stephens of Dublin.  £45

 

WI-3736:  1816 IRISH Penny Token - Signed Obverse.  Dublin.  Stamped PARKES on trunk of bust.  £39

 

WI-3347:  1821 Irish Penny Token – Biblical.  Cheaper example.  £35

 

WI-3739:  1853 IRISH (Dublin) "Building" Token.  One I’m unfamiliar with.  Large pictorial trade mark (building).  £34

 

WI-3349:  1858 Irish Penny Token – William Hodgins, Banker.  Rarer token, good grade.  £59

 

 

 

Medals & Medalets

 

WI-3021:  High Grade 1890’s Irish Medal.  “City of Belfast” promotional medal with much original guilding remaining.  Nice piece.  £22

 

WI-5124:  1754 Irish Medal - Earl of Kildare.  Commemorating the swash-buckling Earl of Kildare taking on the government in order to prevent said government from getting their hands on the surplus money for that year.  Listed as rare.  £95

 

 

 

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