IR1504 - Hiberno-Norse Kings of Dublin, Phase IVa Long Cross, 'Scratched-Die Coins" (c.1060-c.1065), Penny, 0.89g., stylized head ultimately derived from the Long Cross type of Aethelred II left, trefoil of pellets on the neck, two pellets in front, one behind and quatrefoil of pellets behind neck, partially blundered legends,  rev., voided long cross, each arm terminating with three curves, a hand in the 1st quarter, two pellets and a cross in the 2nd, pellets in the 3rd and 4th quarter, partially blundered legends, (S.6134), one of only a handful of coins known of this type, the majority being in museums and in much lower grade / condition, extremely fine and extremely rare, significantly undervalued in the standard catalog, toned good very fine, rare. $1995 SOLD

Ex Donal Levy, 'MacDuinnsleibhe' Collection, Bonhams Auctions, 24 February 2004, lot 104 (withdrawn by vendor).

Dolley¹ described this type as "....one of the most intriguing in the whole of the Hiberno-Norse series. The dies are comparatively rudely executed, and portions give the impression of having been engraved instead of sunk with punches". Indeed, the distinctive style of this coinage and the fact that they predominately derive from a hoard unearthed near Limerick n 1833; led Dolley to air the theory that the coinage was perhaps the product of an Hiberno-Norse mint at Limerick.