The Old Currency Exchange
iRISH COINS, TOKENS AND BANKNOTES
The Old Currency Exchange brings you the story of Irish money, from the days before we had our own coinage, through the pioneering currencies of the Dublin Vikings and medieval Anglo-Norman colonists to political and monetary independence and the present day Euro currency.
It is a complex story – with ebbs and flows of trading, taxation, shortages and expansion. Each chapter of Ireland’s numismatic history is rich in geo-politics, social, economic and monetary detail.
Each coin, token and banknote issue has its own unique raison d’être – this is why coin and banknote collecting are such rewarding hobbies
Early - Late Christian Ireland
Medieval Ireland (Hammered Coinages)
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Hiberno-Norse
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Hiberno-Saxon ?
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Anglo-Norman
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Imported Roman coins
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Imported Anglo-Saxon coins
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Imported Islamic coin
The 17th C Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism
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Currency Crises throughout Europe
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The beginning of Irish Milled coinage
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Emergency coinages of the War of the Three Kingdoms
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Tradesmens’ Tokens of the Interregnum & Restoration
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The ‘fiat’ currencies of the Glorious Revolution & the Williamite Wars
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The end of Hammered coinage in Ireland
The Anglo-Irish Ascendancy
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Regal Coppers
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Shortage of Copper coins and the Proliferation of Forgeries & Unofficial Tokens
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Emergence of the Irish banking system
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Forgeries, Evasion and Currency Reform
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Irish Banking in Crisis
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Monetary Union with Britain
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Coins, Over-Strikes, Tokens, Bonds and Irish Nationalism
1804 Malahide, Co Dublin - The Silver Bank, Three Shillings & Ninepence Halfpenny, payable in Notes of the Bank of Ireland
1866 (21 March) Fenian Bond - Irish Republic Ten Dollars
Independence (Modern Irish Coins & Banknotes)
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The Currency Commission of Ireland
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Pre-Decimal coinage (1928-69)
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Decimal coinage (1969-2000)
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The Single European Currency (Euro Coins)
