Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The pound (Irish: punt) was the currency of Ireland until 2002. Its ISO 4217 code was IEP, and the symbol was £ (or £Ir for distinction. [1]) The Irish pound was replaced by the euro on 1 January 1999. [2] Euro currency did not begin circulation until the beginning of 2002.
Guernsey pound – Guernsey (not an independent currency) Haitian pound – Haiti; Irish pound – Ireland; Israeli pound – Israel; Italian pound – Italy; Jersey pound – Jersey (not an independent currency) Lebanese pound – Lebanon; Libyan pound – Libya; Lombardo-Venetian pound – Lombardy–Venetia; Luccan pound – Lucca ...
The threepence (Irish: leath reul [ˌl̠ʲah ˈɾˠeːlˠ]) or 3d coin was a subdivision of the pre-decimal Irish pound, worth 1 ⁄ 80 of a pound or 1 ⁄ 4 of a shilling. Leath reul literally means "half reul", the reul being a sixpence coin worth about the same as the Spanish real (a quarter of a peseta). As with all other Irish coins, it ...
A currency [a] is a standardization of money in any form, in use or circulation as a medium of exchange, for example banknotes and coins. [1] [2] A more general definition is that a currency is a system of money in common use within a specific environment over time, especially for people in a nation state. [3]
There have been three sets of coins in Ireland since independence. In all three, the coin showed a Celtic harp on the obverse.The pre-decimal coins of the Irish pound had realistic animals on the reverse; the decimal coins retained some of these but featured ornamental birds on the lower denominations; and the euro coins used the common design of the euro currencies.
Irish euro coins all share the same design by Jarlath Hayes, that of the harp, a traditional symbol for Ireland since the Middle Ages, based on that of the Brian Boru harp, housed in Trinity College Dublin. The same harp is used as on the official seals of the Taoiseach, and government ministers and the seal of the president of Ireland.
The sixpence (6d; Irish: réal [1] or reul Irish pronunciation: RALE) coin was a subdivision of the pre-decimal Irish pound, worth 1 ⁄ 40 of a pound or 1 ⁄ 2 of a shilling.The Irish name réal is derived from the Spanish real; for most of the 19th century, a pound sterling was equal to five U.S. dollars, and a dollar was equal to eight reales, so that a real was equal to 1 ⁄ 40 of a pound.
[1] [2] [3] For European Union legislation, the spelling of the words for the currency is prescribed for each language; in the English-language version of European Union legislation the forms "euro" and "cent" are used invariantly in the singular and plural, even though this departs from usual English practice for currencies. [4]