Depiction of the future, two children, hand in hand, a symbol of hope as we enter a new millennium.
Obverse lettering
2000
IRELAND
Obverse script
Latin
Reverse description
A spiral of words, a history of Ireland through the last millenia with each word representing past phases or events in Ireland`s history.
Reverse lettering
Bronze age . The Celts . St. Patrick .
Saints & Scholars . The Vikings . The Normans . Plantation . Flight
of the Earls . 1798 . The great famine . The Fenians . The land
league . Home rule . 1916 . Independence . The Emergency . Modern
Ireland 2000 ÉIRE
Irish Hallmarks including special Irish millennium
Hallmark
