Irish Patrick Pearse Sterling Silver 10/- Coin 1916 Easter Rising 1966

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Irish Patrick Pearse Sterling Silver 10/- Coin 1916 Easter Rising 1966:
$28.00

This coin was struck to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1916 Rising - see below. Designed by Mr. T. H. Paget it bears on the obverse a portrait of Pádraig Pearse and on the reverse a represention of the statue of Cuchulainn by Oliver Sheppard R.H.A. The original sculpture is in the General Post Office, Dublin. The edge or flan of the coin is wide enough to bear an unique inscription: \" Éirí Amach na Cásca 1916\" translates \"Easter Rising 1916\". This special issue \'Easter Rising\' coin contains a high .833 silver (half an ounce) content.
Please Note....Free World Wide Shipping!Condition: Mint Uncirculated. This is straight from a roll. Will be shipped in protective cover as in image.These are NOT stock photos.
I have JUST taken the images of this coin, and then I have put the same coin into the protective cover as you see it.Measures: 1.25\" (coin diameter). Good Luck! Patrick Pearse Ten Shilling Piece Two-thirds of the silver 10s coins minted in the Irish Republic to commemorate the 1916 Easter Rising were later melted down, as the price of silver rose dramatically in the late 1960s.( £705,270 - face value)At the time, they were often confused with the two shilling piece, and the public never wholly accepted them. The Irish bank strike, from May to August 1966, also had a grave effect on their distribution.Only 589,460 of the original issue of two million remain.Patrick Pearse (Padraig MacPiarais) 1879 - 1916 Patrick Pearse was a Revolutionary, a writer and an educationalist. He was deeply interested in the Irish language and culture. He joined the Gaelic League in 1895. He wrote stories, essays and poetry in English and Irish. Patrick founded St. Endas, Rathfarnham, Co. Dublin, Ireland in 1908. A bilingual school to give expression to his ideals, both Nationalistic and educational. He intended that the Gaelic ethos and curriculum of the school should inspire his pupils to a nobility of character to which love of Ireland would be the guiding principle. He never drew a salary from St. Enda\'s--the school was in constant financial difficulties, mainly because it\'s founder was drawn into the political movement at the time, namely the Irish Republican Brotherhood. He joined the IRB in 1915 and was co-opted to the Supreme Council, and elected to the Provisional Committee of the newly formedIrish Volunteers. On August 1st in 1915, at the graveside of the Fenian, Jeremiah O\'Donovan Rossa he made his famous historic oration: \"They think they have pacified Ireland. They think that they have purchased half of us and intimidated the other half. They think that they have foreseen everything, think that they have provided against everything; but the fools, the fools, the fools! - they have left us our Fenian dead, and while Ireland holds these graves, Ireland unfree shall never be at peace.\" In 1916 he was Commander-in-chief of the forces of the Irish Republic and read the famous Proclamation outside the General Post Office in Dublin. After a week\'s fighting he agreed to an unconditional surrender \"to prevent further slaughter of Dublin citizens\". He was court-martialled and condemned to death, and shot in Kilmainham jail on May 3rd 1916. These ten shilling pieces were minted only in 1966. They were taken out of circulation a couple of years later. Despite its patriotic design the coin was not popular and of the 2 million produced about 1 1/4 million were subsequently melted