Copper alloy, 5.31 grams; 25.66 mm. 'St Patrick's' Coinage 1660 - 1661. Obverse: King David playing on harp, crown above, FLOREAT REX. St Patrick with patriarchal cross driving away reptiles, cathedral to right, QVIESCAT PLEBS. S 6569. Uncleaned 'as found' condition, better than scanned. Circulated as official currency in the State of New Jersey, USA in 1680/1.

Copper, 7.40 grams; 26.23 mm. 1760 A.D. Nelson type 4. Obverse: VOCE POPULI (Voice of the People), Laureate bust of the personification of the people facing right. Reverse: HIBERNIA, Hibernia seated left, with harp. Dated 1680 below. Jerry Zelinka, "The Enigmatic Voce Populi Halfpenny of 1760," The Colonial Newsletter 15 (October 1976, serial no. 47), 556-65, discusses the coin as well as describing and illustrating 16 different die combinations. Also see Philip Nelson, The Coinage of Ireland in Copper, Tin and Pewter (Liverpool, 1904 and 1905, reprinted: London: Spink, 1959), Dowle and Finn, The Guide Book to the Coinage of Ireland, 1969; Peter Seaby, Coins and Tokens of Ireland, Seaby's Standard Catalogue, Part 3, London: B.A. Seaby, 1970, pp. 143-144 and 81-83; and Philip Mossman, "The Circulation of Irish Coinage in Pre-Federal America," The Colonial Newsletter, vol. 39, no. 1 (April, 1999, serial no. 110) 1899-1917, on p. 1914 and figure 10 on p. 1915. A similar example of a Nelson type 4 Voce Populi halfpenny realised $920.00 in the auction of The Benson Collection, Part III, February 24-25, 2003, Lot 14. Good Very Fine.

Copper alloy, 3.30 grams; 28.22 mm. Issue of the Confederate Catholics, Kilkenny 1642 - 1643. Obverse: Crown and two sceptres. Reverse: Crowned harp. Mint mark harp. S 6555. Good Fine/Fine for issue. Uncleaned 'as found' condition, better than scanned.