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IRELAND. John. As King, 1199-1216. AR Penny (18mm, 1.40 g, 4h). Third ('Rex') coinage. Dublin mint; Roberd, moneyer. Struck circa 1207-1211. Crowned facing bust, holding cruciform scepter; rosette to right; all within triangle / Pinwheel (sun) within crescent moon; three stars around; all within triangle; three crosses pattée around legend. Grierson, Coins of Medieval Europe 272; O'S, Earliest 2; SCBI 10 (Belfast), 343-376; D&F 50; SCBC 6228. Toned. VF.
From the Richard A. Jourdan Collection of Medieval European Coins, purchased from Renaissance, 2009.
'If Scottish coins were differentiated from English ones by having profile instead of facing heads, and stars or mullets instead of groups of pellets in the quarters of the cross on the reverse, Irish ones were differentiated much more strangely by having the head placed in a triangle, a type introduced by John in the first decade of the thirteenth century.' Grierson, p. 120.
From the Richard A. Jourdan Collection of Medieval European Coins, purchased from Renaissance, 2009.
'If Scottish coins were differentiated from English ones by having profile instead of facing heads, and stars or mullets instead of groups of pellets in the quarters of the cross on the reverse, Irish ones were differentiated much more strangely by having the head placed in a triangle, a type introduced by John in the first decade of the thirteenth century.' Grierson, p. 120.