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Long Beach Signature Sale 3067 6-7 Sep 2018
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James II Limerick Siege 1/2 Penny 1691 AU58 NGC, KM108, SCBC-6594. With only a single example of this usually crude coinage currently graded finer in the NGC census, this fascinating issue is sure to excite both for its remarkably lustrous and crisp execution and its historical context. Overstruck on old James II gunmoney shillings (traces of the undertype being visible on the reverse of this offering), these pieces were produced during the Siege of Limerick in 1691--the final confrontation of the Williamite War in Ireland (1689-91) after the Jacobites had successfully fended off William III's troops during the first Siege of Limerick in 1690. Seldom does one encounter a specimen that has survived in this condition, with the undertype detectable, but not obscuring the overtype, and perhaps a bit conservatively graded as such.
HID02901242017
Estimate: 200-300 USD
James II Limerick Siege 1/2 Penny 1691 AU58 NGC, KM108, SCBC-6594. With only a single example of this usually crude coinage currently graded finer in the NGC census, this fascinating issue is sure to excite both for its remarkably lustrous and crisp execution and its historical context. Overstruck on old James II gunmoney shillings (traces of the undertype being visible on the reverse of this offering), these pieces were produced during the Siege of Limerick in 1691--the final confrontation of the Williamite War in Ireland (1689-91) after the Jacobites had successfully fended off William III's troops during the first Siege of Limerick in 1690. Seldom does one encounter a specimen that has survived in this condition, with the undertype detectable, but not obscuring the overtype, and perhaps a bit conservatively graded as such.
HID02901242017
Estimate: 200-300 USD