This week’s fresh listings:

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Additions to www.HistoryInCoins.com for week commencing Tuesday 17th June 2025

Removed from reservation and available to buy:

WI-7340: 1694 Irish William & Mary *High Grade* Copper Halfpenny. Struck at Dublin during a short three year run. Near all the copper issues from Charles II until the Hanoverians, but particularly so this specific Irish W&M issue, were struck on planchets made from a very soft copper alloy, one that was really not up to the job. As a result, these coins quickly deteriorated through initial circulation. What made the W&M coins in particular so susceptible to wear was the large relief conjoined busts obverse. I’d almost go as far to suggest that the W&M Irish halfpence wore down through circulation at a faster rate than the tin issues, and they really did wear down fast! Sold with an old auction slip stating “Very Fine”, together with an old cabinet ticket. £395

Additions:

WSC-9162: Alexander III Scottish Medieval Hammered Silver Penny. Second coinage, 1280-86. Scarce subclass E2. Twenty points to the reverse stars with (unusually) no extra reverse pellets. Rarer Aberdeen mint. S.R.5056. A lovely coin made all the more desirable with the rarer subclass. Traditionally, Aberdeen has been identified as having x23 reverse points but R.W. Kirton gives this x20 point reverse to Aberdeen. £385

Provenance:

Ex R.W. Kirton collection (an excellent numismatic researcher who amassed a comprehensive collection of Scottish coinage), purchased 1982

Ex Nigel Mills

WSC-9163: Robert II Scottish Medieval Hammered Silver HALFPENNY. Left facing bust of Robert with the reverse unusually showing x5 pointed mullets in all quarters unlike the previous x5 points in two quarters. S.R. 5152. The first Scottish king of the Stewart line. Edinburgh mint. Robert II’s grandfather was Robert the Bruce; his mother, Marjorie Bruce, being Robert Bruce's daughter. Robert was Regent under the imprisoned David II and was himself later imprisoned with his three sons in England when Edward III was recognised as successor to David II. All Robert II coins are hard to source, these minors particularly so. £235

WSC-9164: Scottish Prince Henry Hammered Silver Penny - Excessively Rare Unique Variety. Earl of Northumberland and Huntingdon. Period B or C (this is how it's currently classified although there is a tentative Period B issue of Newcastle) so circa mid to late 1140's. Obverse: +[NEN]CI C[ON] - translating to Count Henry; reverse: [+RIC]CA[RD O]N.CAR. Moneyer Ricard at the Carlisle mint. S.R.5012. The Prince Henry coinage circulated alongside his father's during the lifetime of David 1st only - Henry died a year before his father. This Period B or C issue is the most desirable type as it has a unique-for-the-period reverse cross fleury with no pellets or annulets in the angles - the similar reverses on David 1st, Malcolm IV and even the English Henry 1st cross fleury coins all used pellets or annulets in the angles. The earlier Prince Henry Period A coins have a Cross Moline reverse (resembling Stephen B.M.C. i English pennies) and the later Period D coins have a reverse Cross Crosslet (resembling the English Henry II Tealby issues, even though these would not be struck until six years after Prince Henry's untimely death! Period A was struck at Corbridge only, Period B or C was struck at Carlisle only and Period D (this issue even reads STIFENE REX for Stephen) was probably Banborough. None of the relevant major institutional collections (Scottish National, Hunterian, Glasgow, Ashmolen etc) appear to have any Prince Henry coins in their collections. This research paper, taken from the 2013 British Numismatic Journal, makes for quite interesting reading (copy & paste the link): https://www.britnumsoc.org/publications/Digital%20BNJ/pdfs/2013_BNJ_83_6.pdf The Henry 1st type xv penny overstruck with Prince Henry's name that Mattinson & Cherry refer to in the article is one that was sold through HistoryInCoins well over a decade ago now - I remember it caused quite a stir at the time! It is interesting to note that on the coin for sale here, the obverse & reverse legends, whilst not retrograde, are actually made up of reversed letters. You are lucky to get any legend at all with this issue - the S.R. plate coin is similar to this one on the reverse whilst the Coincraft plate coin has virtually no legends at all. The total number of all Prince Henry coins extant is miniscule and of Period B or C, smaller still. The majority of this issue is under Wilelm of Carlisle so this coin, unusually showing Ricard as moneyer, adds further still to the rarity. Good metal, problem-free and excessively rare. £7,950

Provenance:

Found Hexam (Northumberland) December 2024: catalogued by Dr Martin Allen for inclusion into the EMC / SCBI database