An unusual article in that rather than being about coins, it is about the absence of coins – specifically about an Irish chieftain, recorded as Aodh Mór Nach Glacadh Airgead (Aodh the Great Who Did Not Accept Money) who lived as late as 1407. He appears as a late, if not the last, holdout as a monetary refusenik Irish chieftain. And by him, the final adoption, or at least the final acceptance, of coinage throughout Gaelic Ireland may be dated to 1407 at the earliest.
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A Mis-Struck Limerick Halfpenny of 1691- Gary Oddie
This note presents an unusual mis-struck Limerick halfpenny of 1691 on a March 1689/90 shilling. Though only half of each of the overstrike and host coin is visible, it is still possible to identify all four dies in the Wither & Withers Gunmoney corpus and die study.
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