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Auction: 6013 - Edward III (Double Leopard) The Hilary F Guard Collection of Manx Related Items Ancient, Islamic, English & Foreign Coi
Lot: 571

Ireland, the Duke of Ormonde, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (1662-9), ´St Patrick´ coinage, Halfpenny, King David (?or Charles I) kneeling left, playing harp, crown above, rev. St Patrick holding shamrock and crozier, preaching to congregation, city of Dublin arms to right (Q.49, but the illustrations transposed with those of Q.50; S.6568 - same dies as the illustration), fine, the brass splash on the crown clear, rare Estimate £ 1,000-1,200Recent research by Dr Brian Danforth, published in The Colonial Newsletter for December 2002, has identified the issuer of the ´St Patrick´ coinage, the probable period of its issue as c.1667-9, and the technology for it as being by Peter Blondeau. The coinage was current in the Isle of Man until an Act of the Tynwald forbade this after 1 January 1680. At least 10,000 examples of the halfpenny were taken to America by Mark Newbie in 1681, and made current the following year in the Province of West Jersey

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