1 Scilling Pattern

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.