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1 Pound Millennium Punt, Silver Pattern Strike
| Issuer | Central Bank of Ireland |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#P1, Sp#6701A, Schön#30a |
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| Obverse script | Latin (Gaelic) |
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| Reverse lettering | £1 MILLENNIUM |
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The Central Bank of Ireland issued this pattern to evaluate a potential silver circulation coinage for the millennium year, but Ireland's impending entry into the eurozone — the euro launched in accounting form on 1 January 1999 — made any new punt coinage a short-lived proposition at best. No commemorative punt series moved forward, and the Irish pound was permanently replaced by the euro in physical circulation on 1 January 2002.
Pattern strikes of this type were produced in extremely limited numbers for official review and specimen sets, never entering general distribution.