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Baldwin's of St. James's
Auction 29  19 Mar 2019
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Lot 1485

Estimate: 400 GBP
Price realized: 320 GBP
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Irish Coins, James II(?), a brass penny token of William Ballard of Cork countermarked CORKE, leopard's head above, palm branches below, all in dotted circle (Day, JRHAAI, Vol. 5(50), April 1882, no. 7; S.6562B, note; BW.206), host token virtually flat, faint traces of probable edge reading PROSPERITY TO THIS CITTY remaining, two splits at edge, countermark very fine, very rare
Believed to date from the Civil War period, c. 1688-9, and to have then circulated as a farthing.
(400-500 GBP)
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