Before decimalisation in 1971, the entire series of coins were the work of an English artist, Percy Metcalfe. However the selection of animal effigies, the omission of conventional Irish symbols ...

On this cold and icy night, looking into the palm of my hand, the animals on my Irish coins stare back at me. If these animal images that Irish citizens have passed on to each other for decades ...

Similar to the five pence coin, the size of the Irish ten pence coin was decreased and the design of the animal on the obverse side (in this case a salmon) was changed slightly. 1973 ten pence ...

After Ireland gained independence from Britain in the 1920s, the state set up a Currency Commission to develop symbols suitable for a new state and a new money. The poet WB Yeats, a leading figure in ...

The original animal images on the old Irish coins date from 1927. According to the Central Bank, it was decided at the outset that the coins should bear images of the products of the country ...

Well, it seems that Irish coin producers want to capture those bucolic images. Because the best in Irish coinage features designs drawn straight from the Irish countryside.6p Coin Dogs are man’s ...