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Tudor
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Henry VII
- Three Crowns issue (1483-87)
- Groat
- (Dublin Mint)
- small Lis after “REX”, reads “REX ANGLIE FRANCIE”
- reads “DOMINVS HYBERNIE” both sides
- (Waterford Mint)
- “H” below crowns
- (Dublin Mint)
- Half-Groat
- Dublin Mint (no mint named)
- no “H” below crowns
- rose before “REX”, reads “REX ANG[LIE Z FRA]NCIE”
- Rev. reads “DOMINE KERIE”
- Dublin Mint (no mint named)
- Penny
- Halfpenny
- Groat
- Geraldine ‘Three Crowns’ issue (1487) Lambert Simnal, as Edward VI
- Groat – Third issue: Waterford mint (Muled with obverse of Henry VII)
- no “H” below crowns
- Groat – Third issue: Waterford mint (Muled with obverse of Henry VII)
- Portrait issue (1485-1509)
- Groat
- Dublin Mint, Type I (facing bust/small head, open crown, plain tressure)
- Class Ia (bust breaks plain tressure)
- open crown, large head, fleured tressure
- Dublin Mint, Type II (facing bust, open crown, saltires on tressure)
- Class IIc, open crown, saltires on tressure, “SIVI TAS DBV LNE”
- open crown, “fleured” tressure
- Dublin Mint, Type III (facing bust, open flat crown, no tressure)
- “CIVITS”
- French title, reads “CIVITAS DVBLIN”
- mm. cross
- Waterford Mint
- Dublin Mint, Type I (facing bust/small head, open crown, plain tressure)
- Half-Groat
- Dublin Mint, Type I
- Obv. “REX [ANG]L FRANCIE”, Rev. “CIVITAS DBLI”
- Dublin Mint, Type II (facing bust, arched crown within fleured tressure)
- Dublin Mint, Type I
- Penny – ordered to be minted but none found (yet)
- Halfpenny – ordered to be minted but none found (yet)
- Farthing – ordered to be minted but none found (yet)
- Groat
- Three Crowns issue (1483-87)
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Henry VIII
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Edward VI
- Post-humous coinage of Henry VIII (1547-50?)
- Sixpence
- Threepence
- Three-halfpence
- Three-farthings
- Harp (mint mark) issue (1552)
- Post-humous coinage of Henry VIII (1547-50?)
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Mary I
- Shilling
- 1553 (M: D: L: III. in Roman numerals)
- 1554 (M: D: L: IIII. in Old Roman numerals)
- Groat
- Undated
- 1553 (M: D: L: III. in Roman numerals)
- 1554 (M: D: L: IV. in Modern Roman numerals)
- Half-Groat
- Undated
- Penny
- Undated
- Shilling
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Philip & Mary
- Shilling (1553-54)
- Groat (1555-58)
- 1555
- 1555, with reverse mintmark Portcullis
- 1555, with reverse mintmark Cinquefoil
- 1556
- 1556, with reverse mintmark Rose
- 1556, with reverse mintmark Portcullis + legend “REGI”
- 1556, with reverse mintmark Cinquefoil
- 1557
- 1557, with mintmark Rose on both sides + legends “REGINA A.” and “ADIVTOREM”
- 1557, with mintmark Rose on both sides + legends “REGINA A.” and “ADITOREM”
- 1557, with mintmark Rose on both sides + legends “REGINA” and “ADIVTO.”
- 1557, with reverse mintmark Rose + legends “REGINA A.” and “ADIVTO.”
- 1557, with reverse mintmark Rose + legends “REGINA ANG.” and “ADIVTO.”
- 1557, with reverse mintmark Rose + legends “REGINA.” and “ADIVTO.”
- 1557, with reverse mintmark Rose + legends “REGINA.” and “NOST.”
- 1557, with reverse mintmark Rose + legends “REGINA.” and “NOS.”
- 1558
- 1555
- English-type Penny (made for circulation in Ireland)
- CIVITAS LONDON
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Elizabeth I
- 1st Irish Coinage (de-based silver, 1558) mm. Rose
- Billon Shilling
- Obverse legend reads “REGINA”
- Obverse legend reads “REGIN.”
- Obverse legend reads “REGI:”
- Obverse legend reads “REGI” (no stop)
- Obverse legend reads “REG:”
- Billon Groat
- Obverse legend reads “REGINA”
- Obverse legend reads “REGIN”
- Obverse legend reads “REGI.”
- Obverse legend reads “REG:”
- Billon Shilling
- Edward VI Re-used (Countermarked)
- Seated Greyhound ‘Countermark’ on Edward VI Irish Shilling (1560)
- 2nd Irish Coinage (fine silver, 1561) mm. Harp
- Shilling
- Obverse legend reads “REGI”
- Obverse legend reads “REG:”
- Groat
- Obverse legend reads “REG”
- Obverse legend reads “RE”
- Legends read “REG” and “MEV”
- Shilling
- 3rd Irish Coinage (de-based silver, 1601-02) – three different mintmarks
- Shilling
- Mintmark: Trefoil
- Mintmark: Star
- Mintmark: Martlet
- Sixpence
- Mintmark: Trefoil
- Mintmark: Star
- Mintmark: Martlet
- Threepence
- Mintmark: Trefoil
- Mintmark: Star
- Mintmark: Martlet
- Copper Penny
- Copper Halfpenny
- Mintmark: Trefoil, dated 1601
- Mintmark: Star, dated 1601
- Mintmark: Martlet, dated 1602
- Shilling
- 1st Irish Coinage (de-based silver, 1558) mm. Rose
House of Stuart
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James I
- 1st Irish Coinage (1603-1604) / Rev. TVEATVR VNITA DEVS
- 1st Bust (squared beard)
- Shilling, mint mark: Bell (1603-04)
- Sixpence, mint mark: Bell (1603-04)
- 2nd Bust (pointed beard)
- Shilling, mint mark: Martlet (1604)
- 1st Bust (squared beard)
- 2nd Irish Coinage (1605-1607) / Rev. HENRICVS ROSAS REGNA IACOBVS
- 3rd Bust (decorated shoulder)
- Shilling, mint mark: Martlet (1605)
- Shilling, mint mark: Rose (1605-06)
- Sixpence, mint mark: Rose (1605-06)
- 4th Bust (plain shoulder / ruff)
- Shilling, mint mark: Escallop (1606-07)
- Sixpence, mint mark: Escallop (1606-07)
- 3rd Bust (decorated shoulder)
- 1st Irish Coinage (1603-1604) / Rev. TVEATVR VNITA DEVS
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Charles I
- Emergency Coinage / Coins of Necessity
- 1642 Inchiquin Money (Weight Money)
- Crown (19dwt. 16gr.)
- Halfcrown (9dwt. 16gr.)
- Shilling (3dwt. 21gr.)
- Double wire circle + outer beaded circle
- Triple beaded border / thin numerals
- Ninepence (2dwt. 20gr.)
- Double wire circle + outer beaded circle
- Sixpence (1dwt. 22gr.)
- Double beaded border
- Fourpence (1dwt. 6gr.)
- 1642 Annulet Money
- Ninepence
- Sixpence
- Fourpence (Groat)
- Threepence
- 1642 Dublin Money
- 1642-43 Confederate Catholic Coinage
- Crown
- Halfcrown
- Copper Halfpenny (Kilkenny)
- Copper Farthing
- 1643-44 Ormonde Money
- Crown
- Pellet between CR, seriffed ‘S’
- Pellet between CR, plain ‘S’
- Small Triangle between CR
- Small Lozenge between CR)
- Small Lozenge with small pellet on either side between CR
- Lozenge within a quatrefoil between CR
- Counterfeit: No pellet between CR – probably a 19th C copy ???
- Halfcrown
- Pellet between CR
- No Pellet between CR; thinner numerals
- Small Triangle between CR; tall letters on rev
- Small Star between CR
- Shilling
- Sixpence
- Fourpence (Groat)
- Pellet between CR; tall numerals and large ‘D’ on reverse
- Pellet between CR; thin numerals and thin ‘D’ on reverse
- Pellet between CR and colon after; small numerals on reverse
- Small Lozenge between CR and small letters; tall numerals and medium ‘D’ on reverse
- Small lozenge between CR; tall, thin numerals and medium ‘D’ on reverse
- Small Lozenge between CR and small letters; thick numerals and large ‘D’ on reverse
- Threepence
- Pellet between CR
- Pellet between (and after) CR
- Thin numerals and large ‘D’ on reverse
- Small Triangle between CR; large numerals and small ‘D’ on reverse
- Small Lozenge between CR; thick numerals and thick ‘D’ on reverse
- Twopence (Half-Groat)
- Crown
- 1646 Blacksmith Money
- Halfcrown (with cross on horse’s housings)
- Halfcrown (without cross on horse’s housings)
- 1646 Ormonde Gold Pistoles
- Double Pistole (8dwtt. 14gr.)
- Pistole (4dwtt. 7gr)
- 1646-47 Coinage of the Southern Cities of Refuge
- Bandon (Bandon Bridge)
- Farthing (three castles)
- Cork
- Shilling (octagonal)
- Sixpence (octagonal)
- Farthing (rectangular, Cork in double circle)
- Farthing (rectangular, Cork in circle of pellets)
- Cork countermarked on a copper coin
- Kinsale
- Farthing (chequered shield)
- Pellet between (and after) KS within a circle of pellets / Rev: Shield
- Similar, but dotted circle + heavier flan
- Farthing (chequered shield)
- Youghal
- Square Farthing (Bird above YT, facing right / Rev: ship)
- Pellet between KS and date below / Rev: galley in double circle
- Similar but no date / Rev: galley in double dotted circle
- Square Farthing (Bird above YT, facing left / Rev: ship)
- No Pellet between YT
- Square Farthing (No Bird, YT / Rev: ship)
- Pellet between KS and date below / Rev: galley in double circle
- Square Farthing (Branch above YT / Rev: ship)
- Pellet between YT, within 2 pellet circles / Ship in circle of triangular pellets
- Round Farthing (YT / fish or whale?)
- Pellet between YT / Fish in dotted circle
- Square Farthing (Bird above YT, facing right / Rev: ship)
- Bandon (Bandon Bridge)
- 1649 Post-Mortem Ormonde Money
- Crown
- Halfcrown
- 1642 Inchiquin Money (Weight Money)
- Emergency Coinage / Coins of Necessity
Interregnum
- Oliver Cromwell, as Lord Protector – issued no Irish coinage during his term of office
- The Commonwealth issued English silver and gold coins which circulated in Ireland
- Parliament suspended the royal patents to produce copper farthings, resulting in a chronic shortage of small change in Ireland
- various small traders issued unofficial tokens
- Parliament suspended the royal patents to produce copper farthings, resulting in a chronic shortage of small change in Ireland
- The Commonwealth issued English silver and gold coins which circulated in Ireland
- Thomas Cromwell, as Lord Protector – issued no Irish coinage during his term of office
- small traders continued to issue unofficial tokens