1 Crown - Lord's Justices Coinage

Produced during the catastrophic Confederate Ireland period, when the 1641 Ulster rebellion had collapsed royal authority across much of the island. With the regular mint at Dublin effectively under siege conditions, the Lords Justices — the English crown's emergency administrators — authorized emergency silver coinage to pay troops and maintain what remained of Protestant administration. The dies were crude by any standard, reflecting both the haste of production and the scarcity of skilled craftsmen willing to work in a city surrounded by war.

Spink 6542 is among the rarer issues of this emergency series. Few survived in anything above heavily circulated condition.