 Undated (circa 1667). St. Patrick (Mark Newbie) Farthing. Breen 213. Sea Beasts Below King, Stars in Legends. 81.1 grains. Fine. Both obverse and reverse are well struck and exhibit abundant remaining detail, with only the tops of PLEBS being worn into the rims. Surfaces are medium brown on the devices, while the fields are a darker coffee brown and only minutely porous. Splasher is small but shining a bright yellow in and around the crown. The obverse has three stars after the legend, the reverse has two vertically oriented stars after PLEBS.
Ex Connecticut Historical Society and M. Vernon Sheldon Collections (Bowers & Merena, April 1983, lot 6).
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