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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Medieval & Modern Coins| > |Ireland| > WO50830
Ireland, George I, 1714 - 1727, William Wood Coinage, Circulated in Colonial America
|Ireland|, |Ireland,| |George| |I,| |1714| |-| |1727,| |William| |Wood| |Coinage,| |Circulated| |in| |Colonial| |America|, Hoping to make a profit, Wood obtained the Royal Patent to produce his 'Hibernia' coins in 1722. They were minted both in London and Bristol for use in Ireland. Woods coinage was so unpopular in Ireland that it was recalled and shipped off for use in the American Colonies.
WO50830. Copper SCBC-SII 6601, F, porous, cracked, weight 7.188g, maximum diameter 26.1mm, die axis 180o, 1723; obverse GEORGIUS DEI GRATIA REX (George, by the Grace of God, King), laureate bust right, WC countermark; reverse HIBERNIA 1723, Hibernia seated left, branch in right hand, resting left on lyre; SOLD










REFERENCES

Galster, G. (ed.), M. Dolley & J. Steen Jensen. Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles, 22, Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, Copenhagen, Part V: Hiberno-Norse and Anglo-Irish Coins. (Oxford, 1975).
Krause C. & Mishler, C. Standard Catalog of World Coins. (Iola, WI, 2010 - )
Spink. Coins of Scotland, Ireland and the Islands (Jersey, Guernsey, Man, and Lundy) Pre-Decimal Issues, Standard Catalogue of British Coins. (Cambridge, 2003).
Timmins, P. Gunmoney: The Emergency Coinage of 1689 - 1691 for the Irish Campaign of James II. (Dublin, 2017).

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