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3 Pence - Ormonde Siege coinage
| Issuer | Ireland |
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| Year | 1644-1645 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Struck by James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, to pay Royalist troops during the Confederate Ireland crisis, when the English Civil War had effectively cut off regular coin supply to the island. The Kilkenny mint produced these emergency pieces from melted plate silver — candlesticks, church vessels, and household items pressed into service as raw material.
The irregular weight and crude execution are structural to the type, not signs of wear. Ormonde negotiated simultaneously with the Irish Catholic Confederates and the English Parliament, making this coinage one of the stranger artifacts of the war: Royalist money struck in rebel territory under an uneasy and ultimately failed ceasefire.