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CORKE


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Type Coin
Title CORKE
Date 1688
Country Ireland
Institution
/Catalog #
PI-54b
Denomination unknown
Description Purchased from Ronald Denis / Cibolo, Texas, USA. (Nv. 14, 2022) ($3). (21mm copper coin or token) CORKE (raised letters in a rectangular depression) is counterstamped across the center of a badly corroded 21mm copper coin or token. There is a bit of undertype showing in the rough form of an X but nothing else. Thus the host is unidentifiable. Apparently, it's some variation of 17th century Irish siege or emergency money but my research has turned up nothing in that regard. My feeling is it dates to the 1688-1690 period during which Cork City, Ireland was besieged. Research continues. This example was in a lot of coins won by the seller at a Heritage auction.

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