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the pellets in the second and fourth quarters connected by an annulet. In the 

 outer circle, posvi devm adivtorem mev ; in the inner circle, civitas dub- 

 LINIE. Weight, thirty-eight grains. — (PI. I. fig. 16.) 



There is a variety which has not the annulets in the alternate quarters of the 

 cross, and the words on the obverse are separated by small annulets : it also 

 weighs thirty-eight grains. — (PI. I. fig. 18.) 



The Waterford groat has on the obverse, small pellets, instead of annulets, 

 in the angles outside the tressure ; mint mark, a rose. On the reverse, it has 

 not annulets connecting the pellets in the quarters of the cross ; legend, posvi, 

 &c. ; in the inner circle, civitas waterford : it weighs forty grains. — (PI. I. 

 fig. 20.) 



These groats should weigh forty-five grains. 



No half groat of this type has been discovered, nor is it to be expected. 



A very fine and unique penny, resembling this type, has on one side a crown 

 within a dotted circle ; legend, edward di o dns hyb ; mint mark, a kind of 

 lozenge, pierced in the centre. On the other side, a cross, with three pellets in 

 each quarter ; legend, civitas dvblin : weight, nine grains and a quarter. — 

 (PI. I. fig. 17.)* 



A fragment of a Waterford penny, the only specimen known, has the crown 

 within a double tressure, with trefoils at its points ; on the reverse, civitas 

 w —(PL I. fig. 19.) 



Although this coin does not bear the king's name, like the Dublin penny, it 

 certainly belongs to the coinage under consideration, for coins were not autho- 

 rized to be made at Waterford previous to the year 1463 ; and besides, the 

 trefoils, instead of pellets, at the points of the tressure, distinguish it from the 

 coins of 1461 and 1462. 



Halfpence and farthings were also ordered to be made at Waterford, but 

 none of them have been discovered. 



There are not any coins of this type known from the mints of Trim or 

 Limerick. 



1465. — A few specimens of a coinage are known, of which no record exists, 



* This coin is remarkable for the absence of the tressure round the crown, yet, from its type, 

 and bearing the king's name, it cannot be referred to any other period of this reign. 



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