Checklist (Tudor & Stuart)


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This page is a perpetual “work-in-progress” and will be updated daily via daily Irish Coin Cabinet posts. In time, it will become a “check-list” for Irish coin collectors, detectorists and anyone looking for basic information + an image on individual Irish “hammered” coins and their major die variations.

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Tudor

  • 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
      • 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”
      • Penny
      • Halfpenny
    • 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
    • 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
      • 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)
      • 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)

  • Henry VIII

    • 1st Irish Coinage (Harp issues)
      • Groat, crowned “H” and “A” (for Henry and Anne Boleyn, 1534-35)
      • Groat, crowned “H” and “I” (for Henry and Jane Seymour, 1536-37)
      • Groat, crowned “H” and “K” (for Henry and Katherine Howard, 1540)
      • Half-Groat
    • 2nd Irish Coinage (King Alone issues)

  • Edward VI

  • Mary I

    • Shilling
    • Groat
      • Undated
      • 1553 (M: D: L: III. in Roman numerals)
      • 1554 (M: D: L: IV. in Modern Roman numerals)
    • Half-Groat
      • Undated
    • Penny
      • Undated

  • 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
    • English-type Penny (made for circulation in Ireland)
      • CIVITAS LONDON

  • Elizabeth I

House of Stuart

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
  • Thomas Cromwell, as Lord Protector – issued no Irish coinage during his term of office
    • small traders continued to issue unofficial tokens