1 Shilling 'Inchiquin Money' - Siege of Dublin

The so-called Inchiquin Money takes its name from Murrough O'Brien, 1st Earl of Inchiquin, who authorized emergency coinage for the Parliamentarian garrison at Dublin during the Confederate Ireland uprising. With regular supply lines severed and the city under pressure, silver plate — domestic and ecclesiastical — was seized, assayed, and cut into irregular lumps, then stamped with a value and weight mark. No pretense of portraiture or royal authorization. The weight itself was the guarantee.

The denomination was determined by the assayed silver content, not a die-struck specification, which is why no two examples are truly alike in shape.