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1 Penny Scratched die

Issuer Dublin, Hiberno-Norse Kingdom of
Year 1055-1060
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Value 1 Penny (1⁄240)
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Mint Dublin
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The "scratched die" designation refers to a documented variety within the later Hiberno-Norse series, where the working die shows deliberate or accidental incised marks distinguishable from normal flow lines or damage. Dublin's moneyers during this period were operating under increasingly local control — the tight link to English royal types that characterized earlier issues had loosened considerably by the 1050s, and the quality of die-cutting reflects it.

By this decade, Dublin coinage was effectively a civic currency rather than a royally supervised one, with Hiberno-Norse rulers maintaining the form of English penny types long after any meaningful administrative connection had dissolved.

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