1949 Irish Penny!

Mmmmm... a nice, meaty chicken! It makes me hunger even more for the chicken noodle soup I'm about to eat. Not at the time this posts, that is, but about 1 and 1/2 days before as this is being scheduled. OK, now that my is eaten, I can go on.

This coin was minted back when Ireland used the shilling and pound like the Brits, and their currencies were the traded 1:1. The only thing that made them different was the designs used on them. This coin has a chicken rather than Brittania on the reverse and the denomination written as 1ᵈ and pingin, which means penny. The obverse, rather than featuring the King, has the Irish harp, the word Ireland written in Irish, and the date. This coin is worth about $0.50.

 

 

Happy Easter Rising!

(Well, almost.)



1971 Irish 2 Pence!

Technically it's 2 Pingin but pence is easier and that's what it's called here. I saw this coin at the flea market and since I only had the boring British version I added it to my pile. It's got a "Decorative initial "U" resembling a bird, out of the "Book of Kells"" and an Irish Harp as it's main designs. It has since been demonitized as Ireland adopted the Euro and it now goes for around $0.10.

2007 Irish 10 Euro Cent!

Here's a coin out of a catalogue. I can see it in a coin magazine now with some misleading title and a very over-excited story. Except it would probably be for the 2007 proof version which has a mintage of only 10,000. This coin has a mintage of over 54 million making it the most common of the 2007-2010 circulating Irish 10 Euro Cent coins. That was a mouthful. Being so common it is worth only $0.13.

1976 Irish Penny!

 I actually can't remember exactly where I got this coin. I suppose it was with a bunch of British coins that someone gave to me years ago. That's the only thing I can think of. I don't know much about Irish coins other than they were replaced by the Euro 10 years ago. I do know that this coin features an Irish Harp and a bird. I remeber when I went to Ellis Island they were selling Irish Pennies in proof condition in boxes. They were marketed as lucky pennies. I almost bought one, but $5.00 seemed like a little much for a coin that isn't spendable anymore. This coin is worth $0.05 which kind of proves my last point.