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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BRandM, post: 1242494, member: 22729&quot;][ATTACH]133056.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s the example of the &quot;RIRA&quot; counterstamp in my collection Jeff. The initials stand for the Real Irish Republican Army, which is an offshoot of the IRA (PIRA) This faction broke from the IRA around 1989 apparently because the IRA wasn&#039;t radical enough and were thought to be going &quot;soft&quot;. The examples of this counterstamp I&#039;ve seen are struck over the portrait of the Queen as a means of defacing the monarchy. It&#039;s similiar in nature to the Victoria 6-Pence I posted in #8 above. Whereas the rarer Republican issues seem to be always struck on English coins, the Protestant issues appear regularly on Irish coins. I did think about buying the IRA stamped coins and mark them as possibly bogus, but the price was a bit too steep so I passed on them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Bruce[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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