CNG 94, Lot: 1987. Estimate $1500. Sold for $2501. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IRELAND, Hiberno-Norse. temp. Domnall mac Taidc Ua Briain – Brotar mac Torcaill. Circa 1036-1052. AR Penny (18mm, 0.97 g, 2h). Phase V coinage, Long Cross type. Uncertain mint signature and moneyer. Struck circa 1065-1095. + IIIIIINHHIO, draped bust right; crozier to left; schematized wreath with central pellet, ties in in pellet / III [...]N IN (HH), voided long cross, with central pellet and triple crescent ends; pellet-in-annulet in first angle, pellet in second, triple pellets in third, and “hand” symbol in fourth. Blackburn 4 –; O’S –; SCBI 8 (BM), –; SCBI 22 (Copenhagen), 256 (same obv. die); SCBI 32 (Belfast), 323 (same obv. die); D&F 28; SCBC 6139. VF, toned. Very rare.