A Collection of Irish Countermarked Propaganda Coins

Republic (1937-, Ten Pence, 1969, rev. boycott eire in large block capitals. Very fine (£30-40)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Irish Countermarked Propaganda Coins.

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The pieces in this collection reflect a good cross-section of the mutilated coins in circulation in Northern Ireland in the early 1970s, exposed to a wider numismatic audience by Michael Dolley (SNC September 1965, pp.183-4, and SNC February 1974, pp.58-60). The florin, and its decimal successor, the ten pence, seem to have been the coin of choice for the countermarkers perhaps, as Dolley surmised, because they could be passed on anonymously and without monetary loss through the coin-box of a public telephone