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Auction: 6028 - The Lucien LaRiviere Collection- Irish Coins & Medals
Lot: 235

x t. Sihtric Silkbeard (1014-35), Penny, 1.06g., initial cross consisting of four pellets, legend :IIIIIIIIIIII (four pellets) DIIIC, bare head to left, quatrefoil of four pellets behind neck, pellet behind head, rev. +NEI//IIENN//NINO//DHIE, voided long cross, a pellet in each quarter (see R.H.M.Dolley, ´Hiberno-Manx coinage of the eleventh century´, NC, seventh series, vol. XVI (1976), p. 75; S. 7400), peck mark on obverse, a little crinkled, good very fine, extremely rare Estimate £ 8,000-10,000provenance: DNW, 7 October 2003, lot 1073

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