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Irish Charles I Stuart Kilkenny Siege Halfpenny. browse these categories for related items... Directory: Traditional Collectibles:Numismatics:Coins: Pre 1700: Item # 795865
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| IRELAND, Charles I and the Great Rebellion, The Confederate Catholics of Kilkenny, Copper Halfpenny, 6.1grams., (15th November 1642 - 27th March 1650). Obv:Crown and two sceptrEs in a saltire. Rev:Crowned harp countermarked with a K within a castle. A very decent example of this normally crudely struck coin. Historical Background. Following the Irish Catholic uprising that began in October 1641, representatives of the Catholic Clergy, "Old Anglo-Irish" Catholic aristocracy and Gaelic rebels convened at Kilkenny to discuss ways of controlling the Irish Uprising and of achieving national unity against the Protestant forces opposing them. Asserting their loyalty to King Charles, the Confederates drew up a Constitution at Kilkenny on November 15th, 1642 which in addition to establishing a bureaucracy for the civil, legal and military administration of Ireland, made provisions for the control of the coinage. It raised the value of the Irish, English, Scottish and foreign coins in circulation and ordered the striking of halfpennies and farthings from 400lbs of copper. Crude forgeries of the copper issues soon appeared and in response the Confederacy began countermarking the genuine coins with two different countermarks, 'a castle with a K within or below' and 'a rosette of five small castles' . | ||
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