IRELAND shilling 1954
$20.00
IRELAND, shilling, 1954, Reverse: bull, copper-nickel, KM14a, BU
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Ireland gradually obtained greater degrees of independence from Great Britain over several decades of the 20th century. The so-called “Republican” coinage that began in 1940 was part of the process. The declaration of the Republic did not occur until 1949.
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.
