Date: c. 1647

Description:

Charles I, Southern Cities of Refuge, Bandon Bridge octagonal farthing (copper)

• Weight: 2.32g
• Diameter: 14mm
• Unrecorded in literature but similar to an ‘undated’ Bandon Bridge farthing
• References: cf. D&F 316 and SCBC 6560

Overall, about very fine. (aVF)

• Extremely rare
• An unrecorded ‘dated’ issue

Obverse:

• Crudely struck emergency coinage with the legend “B. • B” across field, date below “1647”, all within beaded border
• Weakly struck on NE quadrant, but this only affects the beaded border
• Extremely Fine (EF) on obverse

Reverse:

• Damaged, with only outline ‘silhouettes of the ‘three castles’ remaining
• Weakly struck on SW quadrant, but this only affects the beaded border
• The damage to the castles seems to be from filing
• Good (G) on reverse

Country:

• Ireland

Category:

• Anglo-Norman
  • House of Stuart
• Charles I
  • Cities of Refuge
    • Also known as
      • Emergency Money
      • Money of Necessity
• Hammered

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Further Reading:

• Check List: Irish Tudor & Stuart Coinage

Other Irish Coin Issues of Charles I:

• Irish Coinage during the reign of King Charles I
• O’Brien Coin Guide: Richmond ‘Patent’ Farthings (1625-34)
• O’Brien Coin Guide: Maltravers ‘Patent’ Farthings (1634-36)
• O’Brien Coin Guide: Maltravers ‘Rose’ Farthings (1636-49)
• O’Brien Coin Guide: Introduction to the Emergency Coinages of the Great Rebellion of 1641-49
  • Timeline 1640 – Prologue to Rebellion in Ireland & Civil War in England
  • Timeline 1641 – The Great Rebellion breaks out in Ireland
  • Timeline 1642 – The Great Rebellion in Ireland & Civil War in England
• O’Brien Coin Guide: The Ormonde Money of 1643-44
• O’Brien Rare Coin Review: The Confederate Catholic ‘Rebel Money’ Coinage of 1642-43
• O’Brien Rare Coin Review: The Ormonde Gold ‘Pistole’ of 1646
• O’Brien Rare Coin Review: Coinage of the Cities of Refuge (Bandon 1646-49)
• O’Brien Rare Coin Review: Cork Shilling
• O’Brien Rare Coin Review: Cork Sixpence
• O’Brien Rare Coin Review: Cork Farthing (rectangular, Cork in double circle)
• O’Brien Rare Coin Review: Cork Farthing (rectangular, Cork in circle of pellets)
• O’Brien Rare Coin Review: Cork Farthing (Cork, countermarked on a copper coin)   <<< You are here
  • Blog Post – Selected Biographies of the Great Irish Rebellion & English Civil War
  • Blog Post – The Proliferation of Unofficial Irish ‘Farthing Tokens’ in the 17th Century