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PALMER'S GREEN HOARD. 91cross coinage was ordered in 1247, it was at the sametime directed that stamps should be graven of a newincision or cut, and should be sent to Canterbury,Divelin, and other places.Four years later there wasa further issue of pennies and halfpennies for Ireland,in order, as it is thought, to pay the large and frequentsubsidies to Pope Innocent IV.18 There was, however,no change in the type. There are only two moneyers'names that appear on these Irish coins, Davi andRicard; so the .issue probably did not extend over along period. Eicard alone was represented in the hoard,and his coins, numbering only five, presented no varietieswhatever, though they may have been from differentdies. The obverse type, the bust of the King holding asceptre, is only an adaptation of the money of Henry'sfather ;but the occurrence of the numerals III wouldlead one to suppose that they may not have been struckbefore 1248.These coins are of no assistance in settlingthe chronology of the English money.The Scottish coins are of the long double-cross type,which are now attributed to Alexander III, and not asformerly to his father, Alexander II. 19They are of twoobverse varieties ;one with the head of the King turnedto right, crowned ;the other with the head to left, and alsocrowned.Of the former type, which according to Burns'classification is the earlier, the hoard contained only onespecimen struck at Berwick; of the latter type thismint, and also those of Edinburgh and St. Andrews,were represented. Burns 20 has placed the issue of the18Simon, Essay on Irish Coins, p. 13.19Burns, Coinage of Scotland, vol. i., p. 112.20 Ibid., loc. cit.