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Tudor
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Henry VII
- Three Crowns issue (1483-87)
- Groat
- Half-Groat
- Penny
- Halfpenny
- Geraldine issue
- Portrait issue (1490-1505)
- Groat
- Half-Groat – ordered to be minted but none found (yet)
- 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)
- 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
- Groat
- Half-Groat
- Penny
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Philip & Mary
- Shilling (1553-54)
- Groat (1555-58)
- Penny
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Elizabeth I
- 1st Irish Coinage (de-based silver, 1558)
- Billon Shilling
- Billon Groat
- Edward VI Re-used (Countermarked)
- Seated Greyhound ‘Countermark’ on Edward VI Irish Shilling (1560)
- 2nd Irish Coinage (fine silver, 1561)
- Shilling
- Groat
- 3rd Irish Coinage (de-based silver, 1601-02)
- Shilling
- Sixpence
- Threepence
- Copper Penny
- Copper Halfpenny
- 1st Irish Coinage (de-based silver, 1558)
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: 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.)
- Type 1, double beaded border
- Type 2, beaded and wire border
- Shilling (3dwt. 21gr.)
- Ninepence (2dwt. 20gr.)
- Sixpence (1dwt. 22gr.)
- Fourpence (1dwt. 6gr.)
- 1642 Annulet Money
- Ninepence
- Sixpence
- Fourpence (Groat)
- Threepence
- 1642 Dublin Money
- Crown
- Halfcrown
- 1642-43 Confederate Catholic Coinage
- Crown
- Halfcrown
- Copper Halfpenny (Kilkenny)
- Copper Farthing
- 1643-44 Ormonde Money
- Crown
- Halfcrown
- Shilling
- Ninepence
- Sixpence
- Fourpence (Groat)
- Threepence
- Twopence (Half-Groat)
- 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)
- Youghal
- Square Farthing (YT / ship)
- Square Farthing (Bird above YT / ship)
- Round Farthing (YT / fish or whale?)
- 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