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| 表面の説明 | A royal crown displaying five jewels on the circlet, with two crossed sceptres passing through its base. A pellet appears between the sceptre handles in the field. A privy mark in the form of a cross patée is positioned at approximately 7 o'clock, immediately preceding the abbreviated legend. The inscription IACO begins at this point and continues around the coin, representing the name of King James I in Latin. Three obverse legend varieties are recorded: IACO: D: G: MAG: BRI:, IACO: D: G: MAG: BR:, and IACO: D: G: MA: BRI. |
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| 裏面の説明 | An Irish harp with six or seven strings, surmounted by a crown with five jewels on the circlet. The encircling legend concludes with a cross patée privy mark followed by a stop, completing the royal title. The design is characteristic of the Lennox patent issue, struck under licence for circulation in Ireland. |
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The Lennox farthing was produced under a patent granted to Ludovic Stuart, 2nd Duke of Lennox, one of James I's closest Scottish favorites, as part of the crown's broader strategy of licensing base-metal coinage to private patentees rather than operating the mint at royal expense. Ireland was flooded with such issues precisely because the crown had little interest in absorbing the cost of small denomination coinage for a peripheral territory. Lennox died in 1624, and the patent passed almost immediately to other hands, making his name on the issue largely nominal by the time striking was underway.