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1996 UK, One Pound Coin, Silver "Piedfort" Proof Boxed with Certificate, FDC.

£59.00

The 1996 one pound, the third in the new four-year series representing the four constituent parts of the United Kingdom, honouring Northern Ireland. It features on its reverse an intricate design, created by Norman Sillman, which reaches deep into the history of Northern Ireland. A richly decorated ornate Irish-style cross provides the background to representation of the famous Celtic collar found in 1896 by a ploughman at Broighter, Co. Londonderry. This broighter collar, one of a number of gold objects deposited by Irish iron Age people around the first century BC, was probably an offering to the Celtic sea god manannan mac Lir (son of the sea).At the centre of the design lies a pimpernel, the lovely yellow flower which flourishes around lough Neagh, the great inland freshwater lake to which are linked five of Northern Ireland's six counties. The obverse bears Raphael Maklouf's exquisite portrait of Her Majesty the Queen. This one pound coin, struck to the highest proof quality in sterling .925 silver, weighs 19.00 grammes and measures 22.5 millimetres in diameter. GRADE: Stunning, Piedfort Proof, FDC as Issued with Royal Mint Certificate.

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