Ireland (1540-42) groat S-6480

Stack's Bowers September 2025 Collectors Choice Online Auction, lot 76226

This specimen was lot 76226 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, September 2025), where it sold for $960. The catalog description^[1] noted, "IRELAND. Groat (6 Pence), ND (1540-42). London Mint; mm: Trefoil. Henry VIII. PCGS AU-58. Second issue. Obverse: Crowned harp, crowned h-R across field; Reverse: Crowned coat-of-arms over long cross fourchee. From the Richard August Collection."

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 2.51 g, silver, 24 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: S-6480.

Source:

• Lobel, Richard, Mark Davidson, Allan Hailstone and Eleni Calligas, Coincraft's Standard Catalogue of the Coins of Scotland, Ireland, Channel Islands & Isle of Man, London: Coincraft, 1999.
• Skingley, Philip, ed., Standard Catalogue of British Coins: Coins of Scotland, Ireland and the Islands (Jersey, Guernsey, Man & Lundy), Pre-Decimal Issues, 2nd edition, London: Spink & Son, 2003.
• ^[1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, September 2025 World Collectors Choice Online Auction, including Selections from the Richard Margolis Collection and Selections from the L.E. Bruun Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2025.

Link to:

• Ireland (1536-37) groat S-6473
• Ireland (1540) groat S-6474 First Harp issue
• Ireland (1540-42) groat S-6479 Henry VIII, with Katherine Howard
• Ireland (1543) groat S-6481
• Coins and currency dated 1540