The numismatic chronicle and journal of the Royal Numismatic Society

330 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.
THIRD COINAGE.
WATERFOKD MINT.
GROAT.
In the year 1858 I obtained this coin, which I believe
is the only one known, and it is now in the Royal Irish
Academy.
Obv. A shield with plain border bearing the arms of
England and France, surmounting a "cross
trefoil," within a tressure of four single arches,
outside which is a beaded circle, and in the cir-
cumference the legend Elcar DVS Dei j |
TCRffX |
gETVI
|
Rev. Three broad flat crowns "one above the other"
surmounting a cross trefoil, within a tressure of
eight double arches, outside which is a beaded
circle, and in the circumference the legend (II VI |
W7Vt tOOE FOOED .
| | | Weight 22-2 grains.
PENNY.
Snelling in his Supplement to Simon published a
Waterford penny of Richard, which is reproduced in
Lindsay, PL VI. fig. 132. The type is the King's head
on obverse, cross and pellets with an open quatrefoil in
the centre on the reverse ; it is similar to the Waterford
penny of Edward IV. in Smith, PL IV. fig. 73.
So much of the Act as has been considered is only a
preamble to the ordinance for a new coinage to be made
according to the statute passed 10 Edward IV., and of
the standard to be the same as the double of 1467, with