Catalog
1 Farthing - Charles I Richmond issue, type 10c
| Issuer | Ireland |
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| Year | 1625-1631 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | A stylised Irish harp with an eagle-headed neck, displaying six strings and surmounted by a crown bearing nine jewels. The reverse legend FRA: ET HIB: REX runs around the design in Latin script. Privy mark 9 appears at the conclusion of the legend, oriented upright and independent of the legend's baseline, consistent with the identifying characteristics of type 10c of the Richmond issue. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Richmond farthings were struck under a patent granted to Ludovic Stuart, Duke of Richmond, who held the right to profit from small copper coinage in Ireland — a franchise arrangement that kept regal farthings out of the Tower of London entirely. Charles I inherited the patent system from his father and let it run. Type 10c sits within the later sequence of Richmond issues, distinguished from earlier types by subtle die characteristics that specialists use to sequence the series. At 0.37g, these circulated hard in a market chronically short of small change.