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Irish Gunmoney

TPRCTPRC Posts: 3,740 ✭✭✭✭✭
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CRO listing of a piece of gunmoney (which looks like it might have sold) got me looking at one of my favorite collecting areas...Irish coinage, including gunmoney. Here is my 1689 shilling, 10r (December), a slightly better variety, in PCGS AU-55.

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Tom

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    ormandhormandh Posts: 3,111 ✭✭✭
    Cool piece!
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    lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,216 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Very neat.

    I've always thought the gunmoney was cool.

    While on my detecting trip to England last November, I went back to the van for a while to get out of the rain one afternoon. Another of the diggers had had enough, too, and joined me. We compared finds.

    He had a lot of "greenies" (dug coppers) in his pouch. To my surprise, one was a 1689 gunmoney halfcrown. So they must have circulated in Essex. None of the group had had a clue what it was before I told them.

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    Not as nice as your shilling, of course (even by a long shot), but I thought it was exciting to be there when it was found.

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