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Why did the other Hiberno-Norse Towns Not Produce Their Own Coins?

The other Hiberno-Norse towns in Ireland became urban later than Dublin: a base was established in Limerick in the 830s/840s, the initial Norse settlement seems to have been established in the 920s but …

Limerick did not develop into a town until around AD 967.

Waterford may have been urban from around AD 980

Cork had evolved to be a town in the 12th century.

The start of Wexford’s urban phase is…

Irish Coin Daily: Hiberno-Norse, Phase II Silver Penny, Sihtric of Dublin (moneyer: Nirinn)

Date: c. 1018-1035

  Description:

Hiberno-Norse. Sihtric III Olafsson. 995-1036. Silver Penny (17.5mm, 1.20 g, 7h). Phase II coinage, Long Cross type. Difelin (Dublin) mint signature; ‘Nirinn,’ moneyer. Struck circa 1018-1035. O`S 12 (same rev. die as illustration); SCBI 22 (Copenhagen), 88 (same dies); D&F 23; SCBC 6125A.

Good VF (gVF)

Toned

Obverse:

Draped bust left; inverted croizer behind

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