What is this?

[Jeffro]

Just picked up some halve rolls to search, this came out of my first roll. I know its from Ireland, and the value is 1, but 1 what? "Punt"? My old coin catalogue lists pennies, schillings, farthings, pence, florins, and crowns, but no "punts".....

 

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[Nana40]

Maybe we are just reading it wrong and it really says 'PINT".

Just kiddin!

I looked it up.....think it's a pound but named punt.?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_pound

Neat find!

 

[Gypsy Heart]

http://www.x-rates.com/d/IEP/table.html


you do the math !

 

[Jeffro]

Thanks folks, shoot.... I ain't even done going through the rest of the rolls yet!

I've got one 90% and four 40% halves so far, only 23 more rolls to go.

Looks like its worth 1 1/2 dollars in the exchange rate. I also see that this was the first year of issue, and it was discontinued in 1999 when the Euro took over. May be something to hang onto, only a ten year run....

 

[Snee]

Very nice! I love finding foreign coins! Even if it's just a canadian penny or something...it's all awesome to me!

 

[Immy]

I think the Irish pound symbol is to the left of the "1". Considering the animal portrayed, could you also call it "one buck"?

 

[Jeffro]

The total out of $500-

1-1964 90%
5- 40% (67, 68, 69)

Pretty poor results, but oh well thats how it goes.

I also got the one Punt, thats a plus, and I got a 1982 cameo proof. And one of the 1968-D's I swear looks like it was punched on copper-nickel, but that can't be possible, can it?

 

[bazinga]

Let's play some football.... punt that Irish coin my way buddy

Congrats on the nice finds!