Date: 1647

Charles I, Cities of Refuge – Cork, Shilling, 1647

Description:

Charles I, Cities of Refuge Shilling on an octagonal piece of silver plate.

• Weight: 4.35g
• References: S 6561; DF 328

Light scratch on reverse, otherwise good Fine (gF)

• Extremely rare

Obverse:

• Crudely struck emergency coinage with the legend “CORK” centred between two circles (outer circle beaded, inner circle wired) with a small pellet below (between “O” and “R” of Cork
• Date “1647” below

Reverse:

• Crudely struck denomination in Roman numerals “XII” centred between two circles (outer circle beaded, inner circle wired) with a small pellet between “X” and the first “I”

Country:

• Ireland

Category:

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

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    <<< You are here
• 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)
  • 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