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Ireland, 1966 Ten Shilling Coin 50th Anniversary of the Irish Easter Rising, UNC

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reland, 1966 Ten Shilling Coin Issued to Commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Irish Easter Rising of 1966. The great public interest and enthusiasm for the commemoration of the golden jubilee of the Easter Rising did not transfer to acceptance of the new coin. The coin, in time, began to be withdrawn from circulation and in the end about 1,250,000 of the coins held by the Central Bank were melted down in 1971 at the time of Decimalisation. Many more were melted down unofficially in the 80s as silver prices rose. Thus is now getting very scare

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