The coin I have chosen for today's daily coin is an Irish 10 shilling , circulating , commemorative coin from 1966 ! The coin was minted to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Irish Easter uprising of 1916 !! This beautiful 83% specimen weighs in at 18.144 grams , and has a diameter of 30.5 mm , and is 3.21 mm thick . There were 2,000,000 of these coins minted but 1,270,000 were melted down in the early 70s ! The concave obverse features a portrait of Padraig Pearse.
The equally concave reverse features the figure of Cú Chulainn which is a miniature of the statue by Oliver Sheppard, currently in the General Post Office, Dublin.
The edge of this awesome coin features the words " Éirí Amach na Cásca 1916" written in Gaelic which translates into "Easter Rising 1916"
This last photo is a picture of the actual statue of in the GPO Dublin Ireland !!.jpg)
By Kman999 - Kman999 on Flickr, CC BY 3.0, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=20646115
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Nice coin GPO, thanks for sharing. PS- did you pose for that statue....😀
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Nice one! Perfect condition 💜 Cool statue 😎
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wow even you also donate your steem doller to the poor people.nice thats great.i saw your image.thank
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nice specimen
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