1 Crown - Kilkenny rebel government Siege coinage

(en) In the older literature, these coins are referred to as ‘Kilkenny Money’ but are now, more properly referred to as ‘Confederated Catholic Coinage’ or ‘Rebel Money.’ There are two opinions re who actually these enigmatic coins – one thinks they might have been minted by the Catholic Confederacy in Kilkenny from as early as September 1642 (just after Owen Roe O’Neill was acknowledged as Lord-General of Irish Confederate forces at the Ulster provincial assembly at Clones) to about 1644.