24 Dr. Smith on the Irish Coins of Edward the Fourth. 



type which I have met with ; it is more than four grains above the standard 

 weight fixed by the Act under the authority of which it was coined. 



The groats with the letter g on the king's bust are more numerous ; the 

 legends are, edwardvs dei gra dns hyber, hybern, and hyberni ; mint 

 marks, a sun, a cross, and a cinquefoil. They present many varieties, which it 

 is unnecessary to particularize, and usually weigh about thirty-two grains each. 

 —(PI. III. figs. 49, 50.) 



The legend on the half groat is, edward di gra dns hyber ; some have 

 small pellets between the words, others small crosses ; the latter is the most com- 

 mon on the coins of this type ; mint marks, a sun and a cross. Reverse, posvi, 

 &c., and civiTAS Dublin. They weigh seventeen grains. — (PL III. figs. 51, 

 52.) 



The penny weighs seven grains and a half, and has a small cross at each 

 side of the king's neck; legends, edward di gra dns hyber, and civitas 

 dublinie. — (PL III. fig. 53.) 



Another has small pellets, instead of crosses, at each side of the king's neck. 



A third variety has a kind of quatrefoil in the centre of the reverse, and the 

 legend, civitas Dublin ; it weighs only six grains. — (PL III. fig. 54.) 



limerick mint. 



The groats present three varieties in the legends, edward di gra rex angl 

 et fr or FRANC, and edwakd di gra dns hvberni. They all have the letter l 

 on the king's bust, and have either a rose, a cross, or a cinquefoil, at each side of 

 the neck ; mint marks, on the obverse, a cross pierced in the centre, and a 

 cinque foil at the beginning of the legend on the reverse ; in the inner circle, 

 civitas limirici, and one of the pellets in the alternate quarters of the cross is 

 replaced by a cinquefoil. They weigh in general about thirty-one grains. — 

 (PL III. figs. 55, 56, 57.) 



The only half groat which I have seen has the legends much defaced, yet it 

 weighs seventeen grains ; there is a quatrefoil at each side of the neck, and on 

 the reverse, civitas limirici, (PL III. fig. 58 ;) it has not the letter l on the 

 king's bust, nor the cinquefoil instead of the pellet in the alternate quarters of 

 the cross, like the groats, and the half groat published in the Editor's additional 

 plate to Simon, (fig. 16.) 



