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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 1582263, member: 12789&quot;]Not a coin but a banknote, so pardon the dustup:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.scottishmoney.net/banknotes/ireland/national11939.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><font size="2"><br /></font></p><p><font size="2"><font size="3"><font face="times new roman">These banknotes from National Bank in Belfast are very well designed and lovely - unfortunately for collectors like myself they are also quite dear and hard to find without having been defaced.&nbsp; You see, the watermark is the problem.&nbsp; The watermark is of Daniel O&#039;Connell - an Irish nationalist from the 19th century that was one of the first Catholics elected to parliament.&nbsp; Politics and religion mixing too much after the pint and defacements in the form of biro X&#039;s on the watermark become quite common.&nbsp; The <span style="color: #000000">£1 notes particularly so since they were much more likely to be seen.&nbsp; This one completed my type set of National Bank notes and was quite dear to buy.</span></font></font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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