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© 2003 - Copyright
John_Stafford-Langan
Version 1.11a
2 February, 2003
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Standard
reference works
Coins
- CoinCraft
This catalogue
updates some pricing on Irish coins and lists a
few new varieties. Available from CoinCraft
(www.coincraft.co.uk)
- Krause
& Mishler
A series of very
extensive catalogs on World Coins - The Irish
sections are quite limited, but they are the most
commonly used reference for most of the series.
Most of the prices for the Irish modern coinage
are for coins at the top end of their grade
range. The prices for pieces in F and VF (except
the extreme rarities) are far too high - these
coins are readily available for significantly
less. The periods covered are 1600-2001.
- Coins of
Scotland, Ireland and the Islands - Seaby - 1984
Still the standard
reference for the coinage - There are some
anomalies in the dating - (The heavy issue of
Edward IV is still listed as dating from 1470 -
the paper redating it to 1465 was published in
1940!). The valuations were still reasonably up
to date until about 1997/8 except for the prices
for high quality specimens of the rarer pieces
which were too low. The pricing for the modern
coins doesn't reflect the premium on choice
specimens and is too high for medium / low grade
modern coins which are generally available
significantly below catalog prices in Ireland.
- Coins and
Tokens of Ireland - Seaby - 1970
This is the previous
issue of the Seaby book. The prices are very out
of date and of little use except as a reference
of relative scarcity. However this book unlike
the 1984 issue has a listing of the tokens as
well as the coins, which is extremely useful
- The Guide
Book to the Coinage of Ireland - from 995 AD to
the present day - Anthony Dowle and Patrick Finn
- Spink - 1969
This book produced
before the 1970 Seaby book is still a valuable
reference - the prices are very out of date - but
are still useful as a guide to relative scarcity.
This book takes a different approach to varieties
and it contains information not in Seaby about
the varieties of some of the later Tudor and
seventeenth century coins.
Banknotes
- Legal Tender
Banknotes - Derek Young - 1972
For a long time the
standard reference for the Legal Tender Banknotes
- The pricing is completely out of date and
doesn't reflect the rarity of some of notes,
especially the earlier higher value notes. The
catalog stops at 1972. Updates were published by
Derek in 'Irish Numismatics' for some years
afterwards including the details of the next
series of notes introduced between 1976 and 1982.
- Consolidated
Banknotes of Ireland - Derek Young - 1974
Similar to the
publication above - except that it deals with the
notes of the Consolidated Banks 'the ploughman
notes'.
- Irish
Banknotes - Irish
Government Paper Money From 1928 - Martin Mac
Devitt - 1999
This book is a very
comprehensive guide to the Banknotes of the Irish
Free State and the Republic of Ireland. Martin's
book contains all the information that a
dedicated collector of the series could want to
know. Copies are available from Whyte's . Only 500 copies printed
- unfortunately that probably amount to more than
the number of serious collectors.
- (General world
catalogues eg Pick are extremely dangerous to use
as a buying price guide for Irish notes because
issues with a wide range of prices are covered as
a single item meaning that a particular note
could be actually worth much more or much less
than is listed for its type. Particular care
should be taken with low grade examples of high
value notes which are often available at much
closer to face value than the catalogues
indicate)
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Selected Bibliography
Roth, B. "The
Coins of the Danish Kings of Ireland" - BNJ
VI, 1909
O'Sullivan, W. "The
Earliest Irish Coinage" - JRSAI LXXIX, 1949
Dolley, M. "The
Hiberno-Norse Coins in the British Museum" -
SCBI 8, 1966
O'Sullivan, W. "The
Earliest Anglo-Irish Coinage", 1964
Dolley, M. & Seaby, W. "Anglo
Irish Coins in the Ulster Museum, Part I, John - Edward
III" - SCBI, 1968
Dykes, D. "The Irish
Coinage of Henry III" - BNJ XXXII, 1963
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