Below is a table listing the average weight of each issue of regal Irish halfpence and farthings as reported in Dowle and Finn's guidebook. Following this are the patent or authorized weights as well as observed weights for Irish halfpence as reported by Mossman in table 13 on p. 126.
Coin type | Weight in grains Dowle and Finn |
Patent weight in grains Mossman |
Observed Weights in grains Mossman |
Charles II 1680-1684 halfpence |
110 | 110 | 105-119 |
James II 1685-1688 halfpence |
125 | 110 | 101-130 |
William and Mary 1692-1694 halfpence |
125 | 110 ? | 85, 106-116 |
William III 1696, type 1 halfpenny |
103 | (both types) 110 |
(both types) 106-116 |
1696, type 2 halfpenny | 105 | ||
George II type 1 halfpence 1 |
134 | (both types) authorized weight 134.6 |
(both types) 95-110, 134-135 |
type 1 farthings 2 | 68 | ||
1760 type 2 halfpenny |
136 | ||
1760 type 2 farthing |
68 | ||
George III halfpence 3 |
134 | authorized weight 134.6 |
81-125 |
For tables detailing the weight and diameter ranges for each issue of circulating British regal halfpence and farthings, from the first issue of Charles II to the 1775 issue of George III - Click here.
See: Anthony Dowle and Patrick Finn, The Guide Book to the Coinage of Ireland from 995 AD to the Present Day London: Spink, 1969 and Philip L. Mossman, Money of the American Colonies and Confederation: A Numismatic, Economic and Historical Correlation, Numismatic Studies, no. 20, New York: American Numismatic Society, 1993.
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