CNG 90, Lot: 2664. Estimate $2000. Sold for $2000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IRELAND, Hiberno-Norse. temp. Murchad mac Diarmata. 1052-1070. AR Penny (18mm, 0.87 g, 11h). Phase IV coinage. Uncertain mint and moneyer. Struck circa 1055/60-1065. Draped bust left; trefoil on neck, two pellets before, pellet and quatrefoil behind / Voided long cross, with triple crescent ends; cross and two pellets in first angle, two pellets in second, ‘hand’ in third, and trefoil in fourth. SCBI 8 (BM), 147 (same obv. die); SCBI 32 (Belfast), 313-4 (same obv. die); SCBC 6134. Near EF, toned. Rare.

From the Innisfree Collection (purchased from Marc Rasmussen, February 2006). Ex Spink Numismatic Circular CXIII.1 (February 2005), no. IH0152.