Irish one pound coin
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The one pound coin was introduced on 20 June 1990. The design is of a red deer, by the Irish artist Tom Ryan, and based on photographs taken by Sean Ryan1 of red deer from the Irish national deer herd in Killarney National Park. In 2000 a coin was issued in honor of the new millennium. The design was based on the "Broighter Boat" in the National Museum of Ireland. Alan Ardiff and Garrett Stokes designed the coin. The coin was first issued on 29 November 1999.
The Irish pound coin, which was introduced in 1990, remains the largest Irish coin introduced since decimalisation at 3.11 centimetres diameter. Its mass was 10 grams. The coin was almost identical in dimensions to the old penny coin that circulated before 1971, and was quite similar in diameter to, but thinner than, the half-crown coin. The edge was milled, and a dotted line runs along the edge of each face.
During the early circulation of the coin, many payphone and vending machines which had been changed to accept the pound coin also accepted the old penny instead, the latter coin no longer legal tender and of little value to collectors. As a result, losses accrued to vending machine operators due to the substitution of the penny coin, and further costs were associated with updating the machines so they would no longer accept the pennies improperly. Further, coins dated 1999 (produced by the Royal Mint not the Central Bank of Ireland) were refused by many vending machines (including but not limited to parking meters in Dublin), although they conformed to standard.
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Note 1: The Wild Red Deer of Killarney, Sean Ryan, ISBN 1-902011-09-0
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| Irish currency and coinage | |
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| Topics | Irish pound · Central Bank · Currency Centre · Currency Commission · Minister for Finance |
| Predecimal coins | Farthing · Halfpenny · Penny · Threepence · Sixpence · Shilling · Florin · Half-Crown · Ten Shilling |
| Decimal based coins | Halfpenny · Penny · Two Pence · Five Pence · Ten Pence · Twenty Pence · Fifty Pence · One Pound |
| Banknotes | Series A · Series B · Series C |
| See also | Banknotes of Northern Ireland · Coins of Ireland · Euro banknotes · Irish euro coins |
