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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 487935, member: 57463&quot;]<b>... pitch and spin for the gambler ...</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Your funny Irish coin is a penny, not a dollar.&nbsp; There is a thread about them in this section.&nbsp; Before you posted the picture, I had it narrowed down just by the year.&nbsp; Ireland has always been a poor country and did not mint coins every year.&nbsp; As it turns out much of their production -- especially of pennies -- was for export to the USA as tourists took them home.</p><p><br /></p><p>... ah!&nbsp; I see now, going back, you thought it was a &quot;dollar&quot; because of the &quot;d&quot; but in British money d means &quot;pence&quot; and Ardatirion already pointed to the Roman word &quot;denarius.&quot;&nbsp; The denarius of Rome became the &quot;penny&quot; of the Germans.&nbsp; In fact, if you look, the coin says PINYN (&quot;penny&quot;), though the letters are a bit parochial.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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