Ireland

Lot 1457    18TH CENTURY COPPER TOKENS    Ireland

Estimate $450
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $2,300

CRONBANE HALFPENNIES, Irish Mine Co. 1789, (D&H 3,5,7 (2), 8 (4, one ex T.A. Jan full red) illustrated 9 (2), 10,11 (2), 15 full red (illustrated), 17 (3), 18, (proof illustrated), 19,20,22 (2), 23,24, 25,26,27,28 (2), 31 imitations 1793 (35 (2), 35a (2)), no date unrecorded reverse die (37 (2)) and contemporary forgery, 38(3), 38 var. with reverse of 40, 39,a (3),c,(2), 41, 42(3), 43(2),a,g,44a (3), 44 var. edge at Horn's Library, 45, 46b,47,48,48a,b (4), 49a (3)b,e, 50(2),a, 51, 51c (2)d,) 1794 (D&H 52) 1795 (D&H 53 var.(illustrated) 54, 55 var. reverse muled with Dublin obverse 180) 1796 (D&H 56(2)). A comprehensive run of this series, fair-uncirculated, the bronzed proof, nearly FDC, some very rare, plus R.R. countermarked on obverse. (87)

D&H 3,5,18,19,24,27,29a,43g,449,53 var. ex J.R. Furnell Collection (part II, lot 94 part), 7,8,9,10,11,20,22,25, 26,28, 31,35a,37,38/40,41,42,43,43a,44 var. 45,46b,47, 48a,b(2), 49a(3), 49e, 50,51d, 52,56 ex T. A. Jan Collection (part II, lots 243, 244 parts) 8,11,17,22, 23,28,35,37 var. 37 (2), 38,42,43,48,b, 49b, 51c, 54,55,56, and countermarked ex Dublina Collection (lot 227) 39, 50a ex W.G. Wright Collection, 17 from Gothic Coins in 1983, 42 from Spink in 1973, 51c from R. Gladdle in 1984, the others from Baldwin in 1973 or acquired in 1960's, 7,8,15, 39a, 48b ex Spink Sale 19 (lot 366 part).