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1 Scilling Pattern
| Issuer | Irish Free State |
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| Year | 1927 |
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| Currency | Pound (1826-1971) |
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| Obverse script | Latin (Gaelic) |
| Obverse lettering | SAORSTÁT ÉIREANN PROVA 1927 (Translation: Irish Free State) |
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The Free State coinage of 1927 was the result of a design competition adjudicated by a government-appointed committee that included W.B. Yeats as chairman. The commission ultimately selected Percy Metcalfe's animal series designs, but not before extensive pattern striking in various compositions — copper-nickel among them — as the committee debated whether the circulating shilling should match British silver coinage or strike out on different metallurgical ground. The final circulating issue was struck in .750 silver.
This copper-nickel pattern never saw general release.