BRITISH 18TH CENTURY TOKENS, IRELAND, Uncertain Issuer, Copper Halfpenny, obv crowned bust right, BRYEN BOIROIMHE KING OF MUNSTER around, rev wheatsheaf and sickle between two doves, PEACE AND PLENTY HALFPENNY around, tail of dove to right is above and to right of Y of HALFPENNY, edge PAYABLE IN DUBLIN CORK OR LIMERICK (D&H unlisted, noted as D&H Munster 1b). From a lightly rusted obverse die, nearly good extremely fine and exceedingly rare, the only example traced.
ex E J French Collection, Sotheby's, 6 July 1936, lot 101 (part)
ex F S Cokayne Collection
Estimate: £150-200