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2004 - Copyright
John_Stafford-Langan
Version
1.12
15th August, 2004
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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 dating 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 The prices are very out of date and of little use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1970 Seaby book is still a valuable reference - the prices are very out
of date - but are still useful as a guide to relative scarcity.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out of date and doesn't reflect the rarity of some of notes, especially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 such
as 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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