Coinage of Saorstát Éireann, 1928.

Bibliographic Details
Main Creator: Irish Free State. Committee on Coinage Designs.
Contributors: Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939.
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In collection: W. B. Yeats Library
Format: Book
Language:English
Published / Created: Dublin : Published by the Stationery Office ... To be purchased through Messrs. Eason and Son, Ltd. ..., [ca. 1928]
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Notes:W. B. Yeats, chairman.

Includes an article by the W. B. Yeats on the purpose of the committee.

Illustrations include original designs submitted by the artists.

Report of the committee appointed to advise the government on coinage designs.

Physical description: 4 preliminary leaves, 65 pages, 11 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Citations/References: A descriptive catalog of W. B. Yeats's library, Edward O'Shea. - New York ; London : Garland, 1985. page 136.

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Table of Contents:
What we at we did or tried to do, by W. B. Yeats
Irish coinage: past and present, by J. J. McElligott
Summary of the proceedings of the committee, by L. T. McCauley
Biographies of the artists by Dermod O'Brien
Postscript, by Thomas Bodkin
Letter of Instructions and conditions sent to the competing artists
Comment by Robert Johnson on the scheme devised by the committee
Acht coighneain, 1926, Coinage act, 1926 committee.- Acht coighneala, 1926. Coinage act, 1926.