Lucky Pig Mother Sow And Her 5 Little Piglets Luck Of The Irish Ireland 1964 1/2 Penny Legal Tender Vintage Bronze Coin Circulated

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LUCKY PIG

MOTHER SOW AND HER 5 PIGLETS

 LUCK OF THE IRISH

IRELAND

1964 1/2 PENNY LEGAL TENDER VINTAGE BRONZE COIN CIRCULATED

Coin is about 25.5 mm diameter, about the size of USA Quarter.

In 1969, the Irish 1/2 Penny coins were completely redesigned and shrunk in size to correspond to the change over to the modern decimal system. 

These old Irish 1/2 pennies are hard to obtain.

In 1926 the government of the newly founded Irish Free State formed a coinage committee to plan for a new Irish coinage.  The chairman of the committee was the Irish poet William Butler Yeats.  The government decision had already been taken to issue a sterling currency rather than to establish an independent Irish currency.  After some deliberation the committee decided that the Irish harp would be used as the national symbol on the coinage as it had been since the 1530’s and that the reverse designs would feature a series of animals important to Ireland’s mainly agricultural economy.

Front of coin shows mother sow and her 5 little piglets. 

 Ireland Half Penny Lucky Pig.

Year: 1964.

Metal: Bronze.

Size: 25.5mm.

The Back of the coin shows a harp and says “Eire” which means Ireland in the Irish language and “1964” the year of the coin.

PHOTOS IN THIS LISTING HAVE BEEN ENLARGED TO SHOW DETAILS.

COIN HAS NICKS AND SCRATCHES DUE TO AGE AND HAVING BEEN CIRCULATED.  

DESPITE HAVING BEEN CLEANED, COIN HAS SPOTTING, TONING,  DISCOLORATION, AND OXIDATION RELATED TO AGE.  COIN YOU RECEIVE MAY HAVE SOME TURQUOISE AND/OR GREENISH TONONG AND/OR BLACK SPOTS.

COIN YOU RECEIVE MAY VARY FROM THE ONE SHOWN IN PHOTO BUT WILL BE IN SAME GENERAL CONDITION.

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