10 Scilling Easter Rising Anniversary
Features
| Issuer |
Ireland 
|
|---|---|
| Period |
Republic (1937-date) |
| Type | Circulating commemorative coin |
| Year | 1966 |
| Value | 10 Shillings (10⁄20) |
| Currency | Pound (1826-1971) |
| Composition | Silver (.833) |
| Weight | 18.144 g |
| Diameter | 30.5 mm |
| Thickness | 3.21 mm |
| Shape | Round |
| Technique | Milled |
| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
| Demonetized | 2 October 2002 |
| Number | N# 12041 |
| References | KM# 18 |
Commemorative issue
50th Anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising
Obverse
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
Reverse
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
Edge
Smooth with Gaelic writing (normal and inverted)
Script: Latin (Gaelic)
Lettering: Éirí Amach na Cásca 1916
Translation: 1916 Easter Rising
Mint
Royal Mint (Tower Hill), London, United Kingdom (1810-1975)Comments
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.
