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Yeats, William Butler. W. B. Yeats and the Designing of Ireland's Coinage

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Yeats, William Butler. W. B. Yeats and the Designing of Ireland's Coinage
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Yeats, William Butler, W. B. Yeats and the Designing of Ireland's Coinage, The Dolmen Press, Ltd., Dublin, 1972, 75 pages, softcover. A collection of essays, only one of which is by Yeats, on how the modern coinage of Ireland was designed. Yeats was head of the committee that chose the designs of the coinage issued first in 1928. There is one brief overview of early Irish coinage by Arthur E. J. Went. Includes photographs rarely seen of 8 proposed series from various engravers for the first coinage issue, ex James Farr Collection Library.