How a horse, pig, and salmon ended up on Irish Free State coins Updated / Sunday, 20 Feb 2022 16:32 Percy Metcalfe's final designs for the Irish coinage, 1927.

By 1926 the newly-minted Irish Free State was ready to get its own coinage and by the time the Coinage Act was enacted in 1927 a design competition was under way.

The first Irish coinage – originally written as Lsd or Librae, solidi and denarii, the Latin currency denominations – in pounds, shillings and pence were made by the Irish Free State in 1928.

Similar to the first coins of the Irish Free State, which were issued in 1928, the coins feature an Irish hunter horse with a foal. The coin was designed by Emmet Mullins.

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The new Irish Free State adopted the tricolor flag and the anthem ("The Soldier's Song") of the 1916 martyrs. In 1928, images on Free State coins became a divisive issue.