€500 - €800
Irish Siege Money (Ormonde Money)
PCGS GRaded 1643-44
The ‘Ormonde money’ is so called as it was issued during the Viceroyalty of James, Marquis of Ormonde, who first received his appointment as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland on the 17th November, 1643, and was sworn into office the 21st January following.
He was later created Duke of Ormonde and was considered a Royalist - therefore being
the enemy of both the Confederate Catholics in Ireland and Cromwell’s Parliamentarians in England during the (simultaneously fought) Great Irish Rebellion and the English Civil War, respectively. On the 25th May, 1643 a letter was issued at Oxford by the King, in which he directed his Lords Justices in Ireland to encourage his Majesty’s loyal subjects to bring in their plate to the treasury that it might be coined.
Fees apply to the hammer price:
Room and Absentee Bids:
23.99% inc VAT*
Online and Autobids:
25.835% inc VAT*
