Ireland 1601 penny
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This specimen was lot 76262 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, September 2025), where it sold for $240. The catalog description[1] noted, "IRELAND. Penny, 1601. Elizabeth I. PCGS EF-45. From the Richard August Collection." This type was struck 1601-02 with trefoil, star and martlet mintmarks. Switching the penny from silver to copper made sense except, of course, the coin was only 1.9 g instead of the 9.6 g used for 19th century British pennies.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 1.9 g, copper, 20 mm diameter.
Catalog reference: S-6510; KM-6.1.
- Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
- 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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