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    A36, Lot 402:

    SCOTLAND. Mary and Henry. (Mary, Fourth Period) (1565-67). AR 2/3rds ryal. 20.55 gm. 37 mm. Undated. A square topped crowned shield, a thistle on each side; •MARIA & HENRIC • DEI • GRA • R • & R • SCOTORVM (spelling unique to this undated issue) / A tortoise climbing a palm tree topped by a crown and with a banner reading DAT GLORIA VIRES. •EXVRGAT • DEVS • & • DISSIPENTR • INIMCI • EI9. S. 5426. (The new Spink Scotland/Ireland shows the wrong photograph for S. 5426. The image is of 5430.) Unpublished in Burns. (The only obverse spelling for any of this issue in Burns is SCOTORV). Near Extremely Fine; exceptional, the finest known of four.

    Ex LaRiviere. Spink. 2006.

    Ex Davisson 29 (December 2010), lot 177

    There are four examples known of this issue without date. Holmes in SCBI 58 (National Museum of Scotland) notes about their example, ex Murray, ex Lockett, that it was struck before the date was added to the die. Murray (Spink 57) noted that the spelling "SCOTORVM" is something he had "not met on any other 2/3 Ryal." His example (1207) is worn and has the thistle revaluation countermark.

    Parsons (also Dundee), where it was noted as "possibly unique," (1944) is another worn and countermarked example. Dundee noted "three known."

    The Spink Numismatic Circular January 1969 offered an example with no countermark (411, illustration 42) that looks to be Very Fine with softness particularly on the obverse.

    The coin offered here was offered in Seaby's Coin and Medal Bulletin, July 1976 where they note "This present piece is the fourth recorded and probably the finest known."
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    E29, Lot 164:

    IRELAND/COLONIAL AMERICA. Voce Populi coinage. Æ halfpenny. 7.4 gm. 28 mm. 96 grains. 1760. Laureate bust right (Square head) / Hibernia seated left; 1760 below. D&F 570. Nelson 2. Zelinka 4-B. Near Extremely Fine; struck on a broad flan; portrait somewhat soft but without the usual roughness; exceptional lustrous surfaces with a glossy milk chocolate patina. Superb example.

    Voce Populi copper halfpenny tokens: a fascinating and enigmatic copper issue from the mid-1700s in Ireland (and Colonial America?) Voce Populi coppers appear in several references on Colonial American coinage: The Official Redbook, A Guidebook of United States Coins 2017; Breen (1988), Walter Breen's Complete Encyclopedia of U.S. and Colonial Coins; Bowers (2009), Whitman Encyclopedia of Colonial and Early American Coins. Irish references cite them as well: Nelson (1905), The Coinage of Ireland in Copper, Tin and Pewter, 1460-1826; Dowle and Finn (1969), The Guidebook to the Coinage of Ireland From 995 AD to the Present Day. The 2015 Spink Standard Catalog, Coins of Scotland, Ireland and the Islands notes them as "a brief issue of tokens, the 'Voce Populi' series, [that] was produced in Dublin to supply the need for small change" but does not provide a listing of types. They were made by a supplier of buttons to the Irish army, a Mr. Roche of Dublin. Who is shown on the obverse? George II? George III? One of the Jacobite pretenders? The Jacobites were Catholic as were the Irish, so there was sympathy for their cause. The standard reference by Jerry Zelinka was published in the October 1976 issue of The Colonial Newsletter. In addition to background discussion he provides a detailed description of die varieties-12 obverse and 11 reverse-in a listing that is supplemented by a chart showing die combinations. (Unfortunately I am unaware of any reprint of this article.) Did they circulate in Colonial America? Dr. Philip Mossman, authority on American Colonial Coinage and past editor of The Colonial Newsletter who has kindly helped me with background on these pieces, keeps a running total record of pieces found in the US and the Maritimes that could conceivably have come to North America during colonial times. The number is small ("a census of 13, most with a definite east coast recovery history so they well could have arrived as someone's pocket change but not as a shipment"). Ken Bressett, one of the Red Book authors when I asked him at the ANA in Colorado Springs about these pieces in Colonial America, smiled as he suggested no real evidence but no objection if someone felt they should be part of Colonial American numismatic history. That they are fascinating and unusual with a great variety of manufacturing quirks is undebatable.

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    E2, Lot 74:

    IRELAND. Henry VII. Anonymous three crown groat. 1.96 gm. 25 mm.

    Very Fine; part softly struck, as typical; attractive old toning.
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    E2, Lot 75:

    IRELAND. John (as Lord). 1207-1211. AR penny. 1.44 gm. 20 mm.

    Good Very Fine; attractive example with fresh surfaces and attractive old toning.
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    E2, Lot 78:

    Union of England and Ireland. Æ 20. 2.54 gm.

    Good Very Fine; glossy brown patina. Very rare.
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    E2, Lot 79:

    IRELAND/AMERICAN COLONIAL. George I. Farthing. 3.47 gm. 22 mm.

    Fine; dark patina, lightly porous.
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