Coins & banknotes from Ireland (now the Republic of Ireland).

Here's another section that will be of interest to collectors of British Commonwealth coins & banknotes such as myself.It is about the coins & notes of Ireland,which is divided into 4 sections;

Crown coinage of Ireland (to 1823),which includes the famous Gun Money of 1689-91.

Coinage of the Irish Free State,1928-37.(Dominion as established under the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1922).

Coinage of the State of Eire,1939-48.(Dominion governed internally as a republic,but with the President of Ireland under the British Kings as Kings of Ireland).

Coinages of the Republic of Ireland,1949 to date.(Ireland withdrew from the British Commonwealth in 1949 to become the Republic of Ireland).However,an organisation has been established with the aim of returning Ireland into the British Commonwealth.The organisation is called the Reform Movement,who have a website here; www.reform.org .

The banknotes of Ireland can be found listed here; www.irishpapermoney.com .

Aidan.

 

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Are "modern" Irish coins/notes considered Brit Commonwealth? I'd be afraid to test that theory in someparts of Ireland.

In any case, I loved the Irish coins. I was also there in '97 and got a crispy new 10 pound note out of the ATM, which I saved. Glad I did.

The Irish one pound coin is one of my favorites. Very simple but nice portrait of a reindeer drinking a Guinness (well, a reindeer, anyway).

 

in the recent robbery in ireland I remember hearing something about how the bank notes the robbers stole were worthless for some reason. something to do about how they were obsolete maybe? can anyone fill me in on this?

 

I know they were Northern Irish banknotes, and I imagine there are not too many N Irish notes in circulation, so even if current they could do some sort of currency recall and maybe get a lead on the guys who bring in 20$mil to convert.

Just guessing.

 

I think the Bank that they were stolen from announced plans to demonetize those notes shortly after the robbery. The thinking was, I believe, that it would force the robbers to exchange the notes faster, and hopefully they would do something stupid, like bring 20 million pounds to convert at once.

The robbery also forced the Irish Taoiseach (Prime Minister) to admit that Sinn Fein is in many ways interchangable with the IRA, and that the IRA, which Dublin believes masterminded the robbery, is the largest criminal organization in Ireland (North or South).

 

KLJ,the Northern Bank in Ulster are recalling the notes of 10 Quid & up.The plastic Millennium commemorative 5 Quid note will still remain legal tender.The total that the subhumans from Sinn Fein/I.R.A. stole was 26 Million Quid.

As to modern Irish coins & notes being regarded as being British Commonwealth,yes,there is a common practice to list the ones issued since 1949 in a British Commonwealth catalogue.Jerome Remick was listing Irish coins since 1949,& South African coins since 1961 (when South Africa was still outside the British Commonwealth) in his catalogue.
Stanley Gibbons,the famous stamp dealers in London,England still list the Irish stamps in their British Commonwealth catalogue for the sake of convenience.

Aidan.

 

Here is a link to some information about the history
of the Irish Pound; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_pound .I trust that you will find this to be interesting reading.

Aidan.

 

I finally got the Irish Farthing that I had been after for a number of years - the elusive 1959 Farthing,which I no longer need to look for.

Aidan.

 

Gerard,this section will really interest you.

Aidan.

 

Here's a couple of links to the statute book documents of the Irish Decimal Currency Acts,1969 & 1970;

Decimal Currency Act,1969; www.irishstatutebook.ie/1969_23.html .

Decimal Currency Act,1970; www.irishstatutebook.ie/1970_21.html .

Here's a link to the 2001 order revoking the legal tender status of the Irish Pound; www.irishstatutebook.ie/ZZSI313Y2001.html .

Aidan.

 

Steve & John,this will be right up your streets,as it were.

Aidan.

 

LOL Ulster yes Republic No

 

Steve,don't forget that there were some trading bank notes that were issued between 1922 & around 1928 by banks in the Irish Free State,but they were only allowed to circulate up in Ulster.These notes are very scarce.I've got a Ploughman 1 Quid of the Munster & Leinster Bank Ltd. that was issued in 1939 in my collection.These notes are scarce,as are any Irish trading bank notes issued prior to 1922.I have got an Ulster Bank 1 Quid dated 1918 as well.That cost me NZ$180 a few years back.

Aidan.