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Mr. Yeats & the Beastly Coins
Mr. Yeats & the Beastly Coins

Mr. Yeats & the Beastly Coins

Documentary, History
2016
14m

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Moe Dunford

Moe Dunford

Ann Marie Hourihane

Ann Marie Hourihane

Laura McNicholas

Laura McNicholas

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In 1926, ten years after the Easter Rising, the Irish government decided to create a new coinage for the Free State. They invited the most famous poet in the world, W.B. Yeats, to chair the design committee. Behind-the-scenes battles were fought before the new coins became one of the most enduring success stories of the new Irish state.

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