Rare Irish coin featured among hundreds of 'eclectic' items in upcoming Dublin auction A rare Irish 20p coin could fetch up to $6,800 (€6,000) at an upcoming auction in the Dublin.

IRISH people are being urged to check their drawers and attics because they may just have a coin that could be worth a pretty penny. Brendan Jones, a coin collector and professional drummer ...

Three years after the previous entry comes the 1937 Florin - the last year of the Irish Free State Series. The harp should split the date on the back of this coin, and it should be about 1.8mm thick.

Irish Free State pattern florin by Italian artist Publio Morbiducci sells for £12,400, prompting a market price update for ...

The coin could fetch up to €6,000 when it goes under the hammer at Whyte's auction house in Dublin on April 6. The 1985 20p is one of the rarest modern coins, even rarer than the famous 1943 florin.

Readers of a certain age will remember the florin, or flóirín as it was in Irish. Those of an uncertain age will even recall when it was Ireland’s two-shilling coin, complete with the leaping ...

1943 Irish Florin is worth £1,500 and is considered the rarest modern Irish coin to have actually circulated. The 1985 Irish 20p and 1992 Irish 10p were not intended to circulate and were minted ...

Analysis: Percy Metcalfe's designs for the Free State's first coinage gathered both praise and criticism en route to Irish pockets From 1928 to 2002, Ireland's coinage bore a beautiful set of so ...

An ultra-rare Irish coin has got people checking their money boxes after it was revealed that it could be worth €15,000.

Rare items at an auction of Irish coins and banknotes to be held today include Bronze Age Irish ring money, a 1943 florin and… ...

A RARE Irish 20p coin could fetch up to €6,000 at an auction next month. The trial coin, dating from 1985, is set to go under the hammer at Whyte's auction house in Dublin next month.

Until Feb. 15, 1971, Britain had 240 pennies to a pound. There were also two farthings in a ha'penny, three pennies in a bit, two shillings in a florin, and five shillings in a crown.