Ireland 1561 shilling S-6505

Stack's Bowers 2022 NYINC sale, lot 1387

This specimen was lot 1387 in Stack's Bowers NYINC sale (New York, January 2022), where it sold for $2,040. The catalog description^[1] noted, "IRELAND. Shilling, 1561. Dublin Mint; mm: Harp. Elizabeth I. PCGS EF-45. Remarkably choice for the issue, this piece exhibits a bold strike (and a tremendous portrait of Elizabeth I!) on a round flan of good quality with no marks of noteworthiness over the surfaces. A thin ring of blue tone at the edges adds additional character to this example that is only surpassed by a sing[l]e AU-50 in the PCGS population report."

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: silver.

Catalog reference: S-6505.

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, The 2022 NYINC Sale: World and Ancient Coins, featuring the Mark and Lottie Salton Collection and the Pat Johnson Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2021.

Link to:

• Ireland (1558) shilling S-6503
• Ireland (1605-06) shilling S-6515
• Coins and currency dated 1561