The name given to two Irish coins bearing the figure of a harp. = harp-groat n. at compounds 2. Obsolete.

an Irish coin having the figure of a harp on the reverse.

Having a harp; bearing the figure of a harp, as harped groat = harp-groat n. at harp, n.1 compounds 2.

English pennies with a new rose design issued to a debased standard under Edward VI and Mary, but later banned from currency (see quot. 1556)…

(See quot. 1617.)

an Irish coin having the figure of a harp on the reverse: see harper, n.1 2.

Applied to various Irish coins current in the 16th and 17th centuries, bearing the figure of a harp; esp. the harp-shilling n., worth 9d. of…

An Irish coin of the value of a halfpenny, current in the 17th cent.

The name formerly current in Ireland for a silver shilling, as being worth thirteen pence of Irish copper currency. Obsolete.

A sum of money or coin equal to four pennies. fourpence-halfpenny n. see quots. 1723 1860.

A silver shilling; = thirteen, n. 2 thirteener and a baubee: see thirteen, n. 2.

A piece of money: = tenpence, n. The token of the Bank of Ireland for 10d., issued in 1805, 1806, and 1813.

= sense B. 2.

a type of silver groat issued in Ireland in 1467 (during the reign of Edward IV), having a portrait of the king on one side and a design consisting…

a cupro-nickel heptagonal coin worth twenty (new) pence, introduced in the U.K. in 1982; also, the corresponding coin in the Republic of Ireland.