IRELAND halfpenny 1782
$15.00
IRELAND, halfpenny, 1782, copper, KM140, light corrosion, VG
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Description
The English decided they wanted Ireland early on. If they didn’t take it, they thought, it would be a haven for pirates. They went and mucked around for several centuries before they managed to repress it into a couple of centuries of exploitation before the civil war of the early 20th century that ended with independence.
The political arrangements that resulted in the nations of modern Europe began to emerge out of local autonomy starting in the 7th century AD or so. Europe, for our purposes, stretches from Greenland to somewhere in Russia. Collectors of Europe would likely include Russia. Collectors of Asia, even though about 2/3 of Russia is in Asia, probably not.
