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



a saltire, The Arms of Fitzgerald Earl of Kildare and Lord Justice of Ireland 

 in 1479 ;* all within a plain circle. The crowns on the reverse are closer, and 

 of a more regular form, than those of the first variety, and are within a double 

 tressure of eight, or more generally, nine arches ; they invariably have a fleur de 

 lis, on one or both sides, in some part of the legend, which is rarely found on the 

 pieces of the first variety. 



The following Table exhibits the most remarkable varieties of the legends 

 which occur on the coins of the Anglo-Irish type. 



WITHOUT THE FITZGERALD ARMS. 



EDWAR REX ANGLIE FRANCI. 



EDWARDVS . . . ANGL 



EDWARDVS RANC. 



REX ANGLIE FRANCIE. 

 REX ANGLIE FRANCIE. 

 DOMINVS HYBERNIE. 



EDWARD DOM HYBE. 

 REX ANGL FRANCIE. 

 REX ANGL FRANCIE. 

 REX ANGL FRANCIE. 

 REX ANGL FRANCIE. 

 REX ANE FRANCIE. 

 DOMIN . . . RERIE. 



REX ANGL FRANCIE. 

 REX ANG FRANC. 



HALF GROATS. 



CIVITAS DVBLINIE.t 

 CIVITAS . . . LIN. 

 DOM HYBERNIE. § 



87. 



* The small shield which Simon represented as a figure of 8, (PI. III. fig. 65,) and described as 

 a mint mark, (p. 22,) was first recognized by the Rev. Mr. Butler as the arms of the Fitzgeralds. — 

 Numismatic Journal, vol. ii. p. 73. 



t Simon, PI. IV. fig. 87. ' % lb. PI. V. fig. 94, 



§ lb. PL V. fig. 95. II lb. PI. IV, fig. 90. 



