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Irish Coin Daily: Hiberno-Norse Silver Penny, Phase III, Class E (Symbol above Head), Type 7 – Long Cross, with two hands

Date: c. 1035-1060

Hiberno-Norse penny, Phase III, Class E (Symbol above Head), Type 7 – Long Cross, with two hands. Echmarcach Mac Ragnaill

Description:

Hiberno-Norse penny, Phase III, Class E (Symbol above Head), Type 7 – Long Cross, with two hands. Echmarcach Mac Ragnaill. Badly blundered legends on both obverse and reverse – undecipherable.

Obverse:

Plain bust, imitating earlier Phase I…

Irish Coin Daily: Hiberno-Norse Silver Penny, Phase III, Class E (Bust with Symbol), Type 1a – Pellet within Annulet before Face & 4 pellets below. Long Cross with two hands

Date: c. 1035-1060

Hiberno-Norse Phase III, Class E (Plain bust, symbol before face), Type 1a (Pellet within Annulet) Echmarcach mac Ragnaill.

Description:

Hiberno-Norse coinage, silver penny, Phase III, Class E (Plain bust with symbol before face), Type 1a – pellet within annulet. Long Cross with two hands on reverse. Badly blundered legends on both obverse and reverse – undecipherable.

Obverse:

Irish Coin Daily: Hiberno-Norse Silver Penny, Phase III, Class E (Bust with Symbol), Type 2b – Quatrefoil on Neck

Date: c. 1035-1060

Hiberno-Norse Phase III, Class E, Plain bust, Type 2b – Quatrefoil on Neck, Long Cross with one hand, one pellet and ‘S’

Description:

Hiberno-Norse coinage, silver penny, Phase III, Class E (Plain bust with symbol – crude quatrefoil on neck) – Long Cross with one hand, one pellet and the symbol ‘S’ on reverse. Badly blundered legends on both obverse and reverse –…

Irish Coin Daily: Hiberno-Norse Silver Penny, Phase III, Class C (Plain Bust), Type 3 (2 Hands + 2 large pellets on Rev.)

Date: c. 1035-1060

Hiberno-Norse Phase III, Class C, Plain bust, Type 3 – Long Cross with two hands + two large pellets. Echmarcach mac Ragnaill

Description:

Hiberno-Norse coinage, Phase III, Class C, Type 3 silver penny. The obverse is, unusually, quite legible (Sihtric, King of Dublin) but the reverse legend is, as more usual, badly blundered and indecipherable.

Obverse:

Plain Bust facing…

Introduction to the Hiberno-Manx Coinages

I am frequently asked the following questions and I openly admit to struggle to answer them adequately – the negative side of being a generalist dealer (constantly buying old attic finds and selling oddments from same), as opposed to being a specialist numismatic expert like so many of my much more knowledgeable customers. Who ordered the production of the Hiberno-Manx coinage and why ? What at…