Dublin, Mic. Wilson, ½d. 1672 - Butchers' arms and crest/St George and dragon (20, from 18 obverse and 19 reverse dies) (BW 416 (20); SCBI 6235-40, 6241a, 6242-6, 6247a, 6248-54), fair to nearly very fine for issue, apparently all with grained edge, an important and interesting group of this prolific issuer (20)

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Dublin, Mic. Wilson, ½d. 1672 - Butchers' arms and crest/St George and dragon (20, from 18 obverse and 19 reverse dies) (BW 416 (20); SCBI 6235-40, 6241a, 6242-6, 6247a, 6248-54), fair to nearly very fine for issue, apparently all with grained edge, an important and interesting group of this prolific issuer (20)

Lot Essay

'It is not possible to be specific as to which of these might be counterfeits but nos. 6247-56, at least, seem likely to be so. On 6247-50 one of the letter Ns is retrograde; a word is mis-spelt on 6251-2; 6253-4 are of very crude style; and the wording on 6255-6 is intentionally different from the normal legends.' (Part of the Sylloge authors' introduction to the Dublin section: see below for nos. 6255-6)