These are a few topics that do not easily fit into the usual categories but are an important part of Irish Numismatics. Some collectors consider them to be of para-numismatic interest, so I shall adhere to that nomenclature.

• Image Gallery: Counter-Strikes on Foreign Coins
  • O’Brien Rare Coin Review: The Castlecomer Colliery Tokens

• Image Gallery: Coin Errors & Mis-Strikes
  • O’Brien Coin Guide: Irish Pre-Decimal Penny Errors & Varieties
  • O’Brien Coin Guide: Irish Pre-Decimal Florin Errors & Varieties

• Image Gallery: Political Counter-Strikes
  • Early Nationalist Over-Strikes on GB & Ireland coins
    • Irish Coin Daily: Political Over-strike “ISDL” on 1918 GB Penny
      • (The Irish Self Determination League of Great Britain, 1919-24)
  • Modern Republican Over-strikes on British coins
    • INLA counter-strikes on British coins
    • IRA counter-strikes on British coins
  • Modern Loyalist Over-strikes on Irish coins
    • UDA counter-strikes on Irish coins
    • UVF counter-strikes on Irish coins

• Image Gallery: Irish Coin Forgeries
  • O’Brien Coin Guide: Irish Evasion Halfpennies (1770s to the 1790s)

• Image Gallery: Irish Commemorative Medals / Medallions

A token is usually described as “An object of value” and in the past has been used as a substitute for coinage or money, e.g. from the 16th to 18th century in Ireland, so-called tradesmens’ tokens were commonly used in lieu of the copper coinage of the day. The Masonic Order uses tokens as a symbol of belonging or membership. An alternative description of this type of token, popular in mainland Europe, is the term “Jeton” or “Jeton du Presence”. Also popular in 19th C Ireland were various forms of religious tokens, e.g. Communion Tokens.

• Irish Masonic Tokens
• Presbyterian Communion Tokens

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