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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gboulton, post: 1506235, member: 27043&quot;]My 2 favorite resources for this sort of thing are:</p><p><br /></p><p>1) Google : Google nearly any writing on any coin, and you&#039;re likely to at least get a starting point.&nbsp; In this case, googling &quot;leat pingin&quot; returns several results.&nbsp; The <b>very first</b> result is titled &quot;Irish Coins &amp; Banknotes&quot;.&nbsp; Without even visiting the site, you&#039;ve got yourself a starting point.&nbsp; Googling &quot;eire&quot; reveals, again in the first result, that &quot;Eire&quot; is the irish name for the island of Ireland.</p><p><br /></p><p>2) <a href="http://en.numista.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.numista.com/" rel="nofollow">http://en.numista.com/</a> : Numista has some fairly extensive catalogs of coins from throughout the world.&nbsp; Knowing that what you have is an Irish coin, from 1942, and it&#039;s &quot;1/2&quot; of something, will let you search Irish coins there, and rather quickly lead you to the 1/2 Pingin of 1939-1967, where you can learn about its composition and mintages, and see links to auctions featuring it, and even see other users of the site that may be interested in trading this type of coin. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>==============</p><p><br /></p><p>By all means, there&#039;s absolutely nothing wrong with hopping on CT and asking, just as you&#039;ve done...but if you&#039;d like to do some digging on your own, those are great places to start. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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