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Reul / 6 Pingine
| Issuer | Ireland |
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| Year | 1942-1969 |
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| Composition | Copper-nickel |
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| Obverse description | A Cláirseach (Irish Gaelic harp) depicted in profile, centrally positioned in the field, with fourteen strings rendered in fine relief. The country name 'éIRe' appears in Gaelic lettering to the left of the harp, and the date is inscribed to the right. The overall design is austere and heraldic in character, consistent with the Irish Free State and Republic coinage series designed by Percy Metcalfe. |
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| Mintage | 1942 - - 1,320,000 1942 - Proof - 1945 - - 400,000 1945 - Proof - 1946 - - 720,000 1946 - Proof - 1947 - - 800,000 1947 - Proof - 1948 - - 800,000 1948 - Proof - 1949 - - 600,000 1949 - Proof - 1950 - - 800,000 1950 - Proof - 1952 - - 800,000 1952 - Proof - 1953 - - 800,000 1953 - Proof - 1955 - - 600,000 1955 - Proof - 1956 - - 600,000 1956 - Proof - 1958 - - 600,000 1959 - - 2,000,000 1959 - Proof - 1960 - - 2,020,000 1960 - Proof - 1961 - - 3,000,000 1961 - Proof - 1962 - - 4,000,000 1962 - Proof - 1963 - - 4,000,000 1963 - Proof - 1964 - - 6,000,000 1966 - - 2,000,000 1967 - - 4,000,000 1968 - - 8,000,000 1969 - - 2,000,000 |
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Ireland's small coinage of this period was designed by Percy Metcalfe in 1928 and remained essentially unchanged for decades — one of the longest uninterrupted runs of any 20th-century democratic coinage. The copper-nickel composition introduced for this type replaced the original nickel alloy, a wartime and postwar metals adjustment that affected much of the Irish series. Metcalfe won the design commission through a competition judged by a government-appointed committee that included W.B. Yeats, who took the selection unusually seriously and wrote extensively on the aesthetics of national coinage.