Auction: 6013 - Edward III (Double Leopard) The Hilary F Guard Collection of Manx Related Items Ancient, Islamic, English & Foreign Coi
Lot: 574
Ireland, Dublin, Mic. Wilson, Halfpenny tokens, 1672 (6), similar to last (Q.52 n., but all are brass; M.10 but diameters vary; Williamson 416); together with a James I second coinage Shilling, m.m. martlet (Q.134; S.6515) and a Charles II Halfpenny, 1682 (Q.133; S.6575), the tokens poor to fine, each die-pairing different, Q.134 good fine but bent and straightened, obverse a little scratched, cleaned, Q.133 nearly fine (8) Estimate £ 120-150See note to previous lot. Late seventeenth-century Irish halfpennies passed as farthings in the island form 1682 (Quarmby, p.15)
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