Definição

• A variety of copper half Pence and Farthings, issued for Ireland. Pinkerton, in his Essay on Medals, states that " in 1760 there was a great scarcity of copper coin in Ireland, upon which a society of Irish gentlemen applied for leave, upon proper conditions, to coin half-pence ; which being granted, those appeared with a very bad portrait of George II., and 'Voce Populi' around it. The bust bears a much greater resemblance to the Pretender; but whether this was a piece of waggery in the engraver, or only arose from his ignorance in drawing, must be left to doubt."

  In Lindsay's Coinage of Ireland , 1839, a variety of the coin is depicted with the letter P before the face, thus seemingly confirming Pinkerton 's conjecture.

  See a detailed account of this coinage contributed by Philip Nelson to the British Numismatic Journal (i. 213).

Fonte

• Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)

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