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With his book and study collection,
both offered for sale here, Jasper Burns has established a formula
through which the collector can identify these difficult but
rewarding issues, based upon successive styles, ornaments and
portraits.
"The pennies struck in
Ireland under Edward IV and Richard III are often disparaged for
their crudeness of design and manufacture. They are are notoriously
difficult to attribute because they are almost always severely
clipped or struck on modules so much smaller than their dies that
little or nothing of their identifying legends are readable. They
closely resemble the heavier contemporary pennies struck in England,
where they are often found by metal detectorists and generally
assumed to be poor examples of the English issues. And yet they
comprise a fascinating array of types and distinctive portrait
styles."
From the introduction to: "Irish Hammered
Pennies of Edward IV and Richard III", by Jasper Burns
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IR1640
- Edward IV
(1461-1483), Penny, 0.46g., Light Cross and
Pellets Coinage (c.1470-78), Cork mint, crowned facing bust of
Edward, no pellets either side of crown, rev., plain long
cross, [CIVI[TAS CO[RCACIE], (S.-; JBurns not recorded, see note
p.41), fine, extremely rare.
$995 SOLD
0 specimens in Burns.
Burns (p.41) notes a
specimen recorded by Richard Sainthill, in Olla Podrida, 1853,
that conforms to this type, otherwise unrecorded in Burns or the
Standard Catalogue. Not from the Jasper Burns Collection. |
JB1 - Richard III
(1483-1485),
Penny, 0.45g., 'Cross and Pellets' Coinage, Dublin mint, crowned facing bust of
Richard, with annulets either side of the neck above the shoulders, rev., long cross with a trefoil of pellets
in each angle and a quatrefoil in the centre, (S.6410;
JBurns Du-17R (type 17), plate coin),
somewhat short of flan as is the norm for this exceptionally rare
issue, good very fine, extremely rare. $2495 SOLD
7 specimens in Burns.
From the
same obverse die as the specimens illustrated in the Standard Catalogue
and Coincraft catalogues. |
