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Numismatically Celebrating St. Patrick’s Day with Irish Coins
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Want to raise a numismatic toast to St. Patrick’s Day? Check out this latest article from Joshua McMorrow-Hernandez covering the history of Ireland's coinage, dating back to 997 A.D. as well as suggestions for building any number of the sets of Irish Sterling Coinage currently listed in the PCGS Set Registry.
https://www.pcgs.com/news/celebrating-st-patricks-day-with-irish-coins
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I always loved the design of Irish coinage.
This interesting short film tells of the competition for the design of the coins. "Ireland. The first dominion to remove the King from its coins."
"Ten years after the Easter Rising, in 1926, the Free State government decided to create a new coinage for the new state. They invited the most famous poet in the world, W.B. Yeats, to chair the design committee. Behind-the-scenes battles were fought before the new coins became one of the most enduring success stories of the new Irish state."