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These ECU coins were issued in 50 ECU, 10 ECU and 5 ECU denominations, in gold, silver and silver respectively. These coins used the Irish red deer design from the Irish pound coin with a mountain relief in the background and other notable differences such as the 12 stars of the European Flag surrounding the harp, quite similar to the Irish ...
Location of Ireland. Various commemorative coins denominated in Irish currency were issued until 2002, when the Irish pound (IEP/IR£) came to an end and was superseded by the euro. Since then there have been Irish commemorative coins denominated in euro.
Malta joined the eurozone on 1 January 2008. It has issued several gold coins denominated €5, €15, €50 and €100, several silver coins denominated €10, one brass coin denominated €5, and one cupro-nickel coin denominated €5. From 2008 to 2012, there were only two issues per year, but the number has increased since 2013.
Centenary of the Easter Rising: a €15 silver coin and €50 gold coin, both depicting Hibernia. A .925 sterling silver proof 10 Euros depicting architect and furniture designer Eileen Gray, the first woman to appear on an Irish commemorative coin, sold for €60 each. Some of these coins were found to be blemished, and the Central Bank ...
Coin of King "Sihtric" of Dublin (r. 989–1036– ) Hiberno-Norse coins were first produced in Dublin in about 997 under the authority of King Sitric Silkbeard.The first coins were local copies of the issues of Aethelred II of England, and as the Anglo-Saxon coinage of the period changed its design every six years, the coinage of Sitric followed this pattern.
All Irish euro coins bear the same design on their obverse side: a Celtic harp based on the Trinity College Harp, flanked to the left and right by the word "ÉIRE" (Irish for Ireland) and the year the coin was struck, written in Gaelic type. These in turn are surrounded by the 12 stars of the flag of Europe. On the one-euro coin the stars ...
The coin was designed by Tom Ryan who would later design the Irish pound coin. About 5 million of these were produced, with 50 thousand proof coins also being produced. [1] Production of fifty pence coins ceased between 1988 and 1996 because of previous oversupply and because of reduced demand following the introduction of the twenty pence coin.
The ten shilling (10s) (Irish: deich scilling) coin was a one-off commemorative coin issued in Ireland in 1966 to mark the 50th anniversary of the Easter Rising. [1] Ten shillings was a subdivision of the pre-decimal Irish pound, worth 1 ⁄ 2 of an Irish pound, making this the highest-value coin in the pre-decimal system.