50th Anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising

Bust of Padraig Pearse (Patrick Pearse) facing right with the country name to the left and the year to the right

Lettering: éire · 1966 · 

Translation: Ireland · 1966 · 

Engraver: T Hugh Paget 

The figure of Cú Chulainn (an Irish mythological hero) as a miniature of the statue by Oliver Sheppard, currently in the General Post Office, Dublin.

Lettering: deiċ scilling 

Translation: ten shilling 

Engraver: T Hugh Paget 

Smooth with Gaelic writing (normal and inverted) 

Lettering: Éirí Amach na Cásca 1916 

Translation: 1916 Easter Rising 

This is a commemorative 10 shilling piece issued in 1966 on the 50th anniversary of the Easter Rising in 1916.

Many of these coins (1,270,000) were melted by the Central Bank around decimalisation in 1971 and many more were melted privately when the price of silver was very high in 1980/81.