"Voce Populi" Coins
Base
About This Coin
Bearing the Latin legend VOCE POPULI ("By the Voice of the People"), these copper coins were produced in Ireland and are attributed to a Dublin maker named Roche. The Voce Populi halfpence and farthings are unofficial Dublin coppers dated 1760, made during a shortage of small change and traditionally credited to the button maker John Roche, although others probably made them too. The obverse has a laureate bust with VOCE POPULI and the reverse Hibernia seated with a harp and the date. The halfpence are numbered by Nelson and by Zelinka's die study, and nobody has explained the P on some dies. Mossman notes that they are counted as American colonial pieces because of chance finds, not records of shipment.
Specifications
Strike Types & Varieties(8)
1700 "1700" 1/2P Voce Populi - Blundered Date Half Penny
1760 1/2 P Voce Populi - No P Half Penny
1760 1/2 P Voce Populi - P at Face Half Penny
1760 1/2 P Voce Populi - P Below Half Penny
1760 1/2 P Voce Populi - VOOE Half Penny
1760 1760/00 1/2 P Voce Populi Crosslet After Voce Half Penny
1760 Farth Voce Populi - Large Letters
1760 Farth Voce Populi - Small Letters
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