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    RARE IRISH GOLD COIN AT LONDON AUCTION

    Thursday, August 27th, 2015
    The Ormonde Money gold pistole.

    The Ormonde Money gold pistole.

    A rare Irish gold coin could make up to £100,000 at Dix Noonan Webb in London on September 15.  The Ormonde money gold pistole – Ireland’s only gold coinage – dates from the Great Rebellion of the 17th century.  Only 11 are known to have survived and nine of these are in museums and public collections.  Issued by the Duke of Ormonde, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, they were used to pay the Royalist garrison in Dublin.  The coins were minted using foreign currency, bullion, rings and chains.  Ormonde was the representative of Charles I in Ireland.

    This specimen is from the collection of Theo Bullmore, the British chartered accountant who rose to become managing partner in KPMG.  It will be sold along with the rest of a collection of Irish coins of the Great Rebellion 1642-49 built up by Mr. Bullmore.
    UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR £78,000