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<p>[QUOTE="scottishmoney, post: 7803808, member: 12789"][ATTACH=full]1340262[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Actually circulation and appearing to have circulated had very little to do with their lack of acceptance. It all had more to do with the fact that the coins were inferior in weight and composition vs. their contemporary English and then British brethren circulating in Great Britain.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1340261[/ATTACH] </p><p>Inasmuch as there was a general coin shortage everywhere in the British Isles then, Ireland was at the very bottom of the feeding scale when it came to securing new coinage. The last decent amount of bronze coinage for Ireland was struck in 1685, there was a small issue during the reign of William and Mary ca. 1694 then literally nothing until the Wood's Hibernia pieces in 1723.</p><p><br /></p><p>So coinage circulating in Ireland was often either very old and worn, or foreign like French or Dutch bronze, similar to Scotland. Whereas in Great Britain there was a minimal effort and circulating small denomination coinage, Ireland was totally left out.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1340264[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The problem with the Wood's coinage is that it was underweight and the composition was less bronze, more tin etc. So the coins were unpopular due to that fact, so much so that William Woods' agents had many of them shipped off to those s-hole colonies in North America - where they were just as unpopular and were even banned in colonies such as Massachusetts-Bay and New Jersey.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="scottishmoney, post: 7803808, member: 12789"][ATTACH=full]1340262[/ATTACH] Actually circulation and appearing to have circulated had very little to do with their lack of acceptance. It all had more to do with the fact that the coins were inferior in weight and composition vs. their contemporary English and then British brethren circulating in Great Britain. [ATTACH=full]1340261[/ATTACH] Inasmuch as there was a general coin shortage everywhere in the British Isles then, Ireland was at the very bottom of the feeding scale when it came to securing new coinage. The last decent amount of bronze coinage for Ireland was struck in 1685, there was a small issue during the reign of William and Mary ca. 1694 then literally nothing until the Wood's Hibernia pieces in 1723. So coinage circulating in Ireland was often either very old and worn, or foreign like French or Dutch bronze, similar to Scotland. Whereas in Great Britain there was a minimal effort and circulating small denomination coinage, Ireland was totally left out. [ATTACH=full]1340264[/ATTACH] The problem with the Wood's coinage is that it was underweight and the composition was less bronze, more tin etc. So the coins were unpopular due to that fact, so much so that William Woods' agents had many of them shipped off to those s-hole colonies in North America - where they were just as unpopular and were even banned in colonies such as Massachusetts-Bay and New Jersey.[/QUOTE]
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