Image: Colonel Sempronius Stretton, a painting by Thomas Barber This note has two primary purposes. The first is to draw the attention of the numismatic community to John Sheehan’s reassignment of the Eadgar hoard’s find spot from Co. Kilkenny to Co. Westmeath. The second is to provide an updated listing of the coins of Eadgar and of other tenth-century Anglo-Saxon rulers offered in the 1855 Stretton sale.
Ireland
Aodh Mór Nach Glacadh Airgead, d. 1407: a strictly amonetary medieval chieftain of West Connacht – Oisín Mac Conamhna
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.
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.
