NEW IRISH COINAGE
-DESIGNS FOR THE PEOPLE. The design of .the new Irish Free State coinage differs from the stereotyped heraldic emblems which char, acterise the money of most other nations. The advisory committee decided that all the inscriptions on the coins should bv in Irish, and that no effigies of .modern persons should be employed. Dr Thomas Bodkin, director of the National Gallery of Ireland, realising that Ireland’s wealth is derived from cattle, fish and agriculture, conceived the happy idea of symbolising the fact in the coinage. Therefore the half-crown, the largest coin of the series, bears a likelike 'representation of an Irish hunter.
The florin show s a leaping salmon, the shilling a sturdy Irish bull, the sixpence a wolfhound at gaze, the threepenny bit a hare couehant, the penny —admittedly to please the women and children, who mostly handle this coin—hen and chickens, the halfpenny a sow with a litter, and the farthing a woodcock in flight.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11026, 24 December 1928, Page 2
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