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6 Pence - James II Silver coinage
| Issuer | Ireland |
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| Year | 1689-1690 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | IACOBVS · II · DEI · GRATIA. (Translation: James II by the grace of God ...) |
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This is not the gun money coinage — that was brass and pewter. The silver sixpence of James II for Ireland belongs to a separate, shorter-lived effort to maintain a credible specie currency even as his military position in Ireland collapsed. By 1690, with William III's forces advancing and the Jacobite cause unraveling after the Boyne, silver production at the Dublin mint effectively ceased. Surviving examples in any condition are scarcer than their brass contemporaries, which were struck in enormous quantities precisely because the silver supply had already dried up.