CNG 111, Lot: 1159. Estimate $500. Sold for $610. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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IRELAND. Edward IV. First/Second reign, 1461-1483. AR Groat (24mm, 2.07 g, 1h). Light ‘Cross and Pellets’ coinage. Limerick mint. Struck 1472-1478(?). Crowned facing bust; cinquefoils flanking; L on breast; all within tressure of nine arches; trefoil at end of each arc / Long cross pattée; triple pellets in quarters; cinquefoil replacing pellet in two of the quarters. SCBI 22 (Copenhagen) –; D&F, p. 31; SCBC 6343. Near VF, toned, a couple of marks under tone on reverse, ghosting on obverse.
Ex Spink Numismatic Circular XCIV.3 (April 1985), no. 2432.