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<p>[QUOTE="BRandM, post: 2455365, member: 22729"]Here's another one of my Irish political counterstamps. I consider it one of the most interesting pieces I've seen because of the story it tells.[ATTACH=full]513632[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]513633[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The "You Are Now Entering Free Derry" is an unusual stamp on a 1965 Churchill Crown. As with nearly all Nationalist issues, this slogan appears on an English coin, and is struck over the monarch's portrait with the intent of defacing it. Very few Nationalist pieces are struck on Eire coins. I bought this several years ago from a man in Co. Dublin, who told me that he acquired it at a coin fair in 1989. It's very likely that this example is unique.</p><p><br /></p><p>"Free Derry" was a self-declared autonomous area of Derry that existed from 1969 until 1972. It encompassed the Bogside and Creggan neighborhoods of the city, and was controlled by Nationalist paramilitaries, including the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and other armed citizen militias. The Royal Ulster Constabulary (police) and British army units rarely ventured into the neighborhoods, and when they did, only when heavily armed and in substantial numbers. The impasse was broken on July 31, 1972 when large numbers of British troops with armor and helicopter support entered the neighborhoods. The slogan "You Are Now Entering Free Derry" appeared on the gable end of a house at the corner of Lecky Rd. and Fahan St. in the Bogside in January, 1969 only a few days before the insurrection began.</p><p><br /></p><p>Bruce[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="BRandM, post: 2455365, member: 22729"]Here's another one of my Irish political counterstamps. I consider it one of the most interesting pieces I've seen because of the story it tells.[ATTACH=full]513632[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]513633[/ATTACH] The "You Are Now Entering Free Derry" is an unusual stamp on a 1965 Churchill Crown. As with nearly all Nationalist issues, this slogan appears on an English coin, and is struck over the monarch's portrait with the intent of defacing it. Very few Nationalist pieces are struck on Eire coins. I bought this several years ago from a man in Co. Dublin, who told me that he acquired it at a coin fair in 1989. It's very likely that this example is unique. "Free Derry" was a self-declared autonomous area of Derry that existed from 1969 until 1972. It encompassed the Bogside and Creggan neighborhoods of the city, and was controlled by Nationalist paramilitaries, including the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and other armed citizen militias. The Royal Ulster Constabulary (police) and British army units rarely ventured into the neighborhoods, and when they did, only when heavily armed and in substantial numbers. The impasse was broken on July 31, 1972 when large numbers of British troops with armor and helicopter support entered the neighborhoods. The slogan "You Are Now Entering Free Derry" appeared on the gable end of a house at the corner of Lecky Rd. and Fahan St. in the Bogside in January, 1969 only a few days before the insurrection began. Bruce[/QUOTE]
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