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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BRandM, post: 1267272, member: 22729&quot;]Thanks for the info smeashy. I think your &quot;FB&quot; counterstamp was a reference to something other than the Fenian Brotherhood, but it&#039;s hard to be certain. The Fenians disbanded in 1880, so it&#039;s a long time between then and the 1936 date on your coin. I couldn&#039;t find a reference to any political issues of the Brotherhood. It would also be more likely that the initials would have been struck over the portrait as a means of defacing the monarch, rather than around it if it were meant as a political protest. Typical Republican issues were done this way and generally only on English coins, not Irish ones.</p><p><br /></p><p>Bruce[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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