Ireland 1561 groat
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This specimen was lot 76255 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, September 2025), where it sold for $900. The catalog description[1] noted, "IRELAND. Groat (4 Pence), 1561. London Mint. Elizabeth I. PCGS VF-30. Fine Coinage. Obverse: Crowned bust left; Reverse: Three harps on crowned shield. From the Richard August Collection."
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 1.45 g, 0.917 fine silver.
Catalog reference: S-6506.
- 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.
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