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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 1236175, member: 12789&quot;]I really do not collect 20th century Irish coins, but do collect Northern Ireland banknotes.&nbsp; There are some issues, notably National Bank Limited notes from 1939-59 that are practically impossible to find nice undefaced examples of.&nbsp; The reason, the Irish nationalist Daniel O&#039;Connell is in the watermark era of the note - so if Protestants got the note they would deface it with an X over O&#039;Connells&#039; image on the note.&nbsp; I have managed to find the £1, £5, and £10 that have not been defaced - and they cost a bundle.&nbsp; So far I have yet to find the £20 that has not been defaced.</p><p><br /></p><p>I do collect Irish coins and tokens until the &quot;Wood&#039;s Hibernia&quot; era, but after that I lose interest - my Scots-Irish ancestors left in the 1730s and came to America.&nbsp; My favourite pieces are my 17th century Irish tokens.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have to wonder, because I see a lot of 1970s era Canadian coinage where QEII&#039;s portrait is scratched over with an X - how many British coins were similarly defaced in Ireland?&nbsp; British coinage did circulate even in the Republic up until decimalisation as often it pre-dated the Free State coinage of 1928.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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