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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Silverfinger©, post: 4615626, member: 112311&quot;]This arrived today, a 1942 dated, Irish 1/2 Crown, second type, made of .750 silver.</p><p>A quite large coin the Irish Half Crown featured an Irish Hunter horse on the reverse, all Irish coins of this period had a national animal on their reverse, a Gaelic Harp featured on the obverse of all coins.</p><p>The 1/2 Crown was the highest denomination of coin that Ireland had during the pre decimal period, the first type of coin released was in 1928 and the harp separated the date with the century one side and the year the other, also on the reverse was the words Saorstat Eireann or &#039;Free State&#039; , in 1939 there was a second type of coin released which had the date all in one area and the words Free State replaced with Eire or Ireland.</p><p>The mintage for these coins was very low, that combined with the high silver content meant that not many of these coins have survived in uncirculated condition, silver was used in circulation Irish coins until 1943, though very few were made that last year.</p><p>My coin while in mint condition with all its lustre looks to have a slight manufacturing fault, above the horse it looks like a rogue piece of silver got stamped into the coin with some other bits, perhaps this is why its in such good condition, was it put aside as a reject possibly ? it came from London where they were minted by the Royal Mint.</p><p>The production figures for the second type 1/2 Crown are as follows, as can be seen, each year production got lower and lower,</p><p><br /></p><p>1939,&nbsp;&nbsp; 888,000</p><p>1940,&nbsp;&nbsp; 752,000</p><p>1941,&nbsp;&nbsp; 320,000</p><p>1942,&nbsp;&nbsp; 286,000</p><p>1943,&nbsp;&nbsp; 1,000</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1143205[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1143206[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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