Hi guys. First off, I'm not a coin guy. I received a RIRA-stamped pound coin in change a couple of years ago and kept hold of it for some reason. Although I understand that such coins may be reproduced and therefore not be considered a collectors coin, I thought someone may be interested in this one for their collection. I don't have enough posts to start a WTS thread in the right forum, so if anyone wants this for their collection, just PM me your address and I'll post it right out. Just donate a couple of quid to your favorite charity and we'll call it quits. Cheers! Pete
The RIRA is an outlawed organisation in the UK, Eire and the USA, having worked out there at the beginning of the troubles and witnessed their atrocities I find it offensive that you are offering this.
I apologise, I didn't mean to cause any offense. I'm not ignorant to the past and to that end I did some brief searching on this forum and see that these coins have been discussed, albeit briefly, in the past without any anoymosity and assumed that it would be ok to offer it at no cost to an enthusiast for a collection. I imagine a fair few coins in existence could be affiliated with some pretty brutal past regimes, but nonetheless, I have no wish to upset anyone within a community which I am unfamiliar with so if I'm likely to generate a hugely negative response with such an offer I'll go and spend it on a Mars Bar instead. Just say the word.
I see no reason for you to apologise saturnuranus Calm down daveydempsey. Nobody is condoning their actions or pledging support. Practically every Roman coin I own displays somebody who committed atrocities of some kind. Just because you're offended it does not make you right.
This coin was not struck like this it has been altered, coins with KKK or Palastine Liberation Front or many of the other banned terrorist groups would not be allowed to be sold in the US
Maybe, not sure, not sure why that even matters tbh. To me this is a coin, nothing more and its defacing does not in any way represent my own political views. The point is he joined today and was making his first posts, he wasn't trying to sell it and he wasn't endorsing its doctrine. His idea of giving it to a collector for free keeps it out of circulation and it means a charity (TeamGeorge in this case) would receive a few quid in return, seemed like a very nice idea to me, I commend him for it. Correct me if I'm wrong but your opinion has changed from this thread? http://www.cointalk.com/threads/irish-political-tokens.188964/
