Undated (ca. 1652-1674) St. Patrick Farthing. Martin 4i.1-Gj.1, W-11500. Rarity-7-. Copper. Sea Beasts Below King, Stars in Legend. Fine-15 (PCGS).

98.6 grains. Problem free autumn-brown surfaces with olive peripheral highlights, central reverse splashed in mottled copper-rose. The lower obverse and upper reverse are a bit soft, but the detail is appreciably bolder in other areas. Struck on a really a lovely planchet - smooth, hard and glossy - and free of post-production detractions. The warm brassy-gold splasher is fairly well centered atop the crown. Syd listed nine examples from these dies in his 2018 census.

PCGS# 915247. NGC ID: AUAR.

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From the Sydney F. Martin Collection. Earlier ex Robert A. Vlack; Tom Rinaldo, August 18, 2001; McCawley-Grellman's sale of the John Griffee Collection of St. Patrick Farthings, November 2003 Ninth Annual C-4 Convention Sale, lot 186; Jim LaSarre, December 2009. The obverse is plated in Syd Martin's 2018 reference on St. Patrick coinage, p. 176.