🐟🐟🐟 Who Wants Some Salmon 🐟🐟🐟

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What's up plebs!

I have been silently stacking more silver lately.. nothing fancy, the regular junk stuff I can get as close to spot as I can.

This is one of the latest additions to my stack :)

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A 1935, 2 Shillings / 1 Florin coin from Ireland!

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You know I love animal themed coins so naturally I was happy to score this baby for close to spot. Unfortunately many of the details of the fish have been destroyed by the passage of time but that's what you get for being a cheap bastard like me 😄

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The fish is a salmon, possibly a reference to the Salmon of Knowledge (Irish: An Bradán Feasa), a creature in the Fenian Cycle of Irish mythology. That..or they just eating salmon. Dunno 😶

Nothing else on this side, other than the denomination (Flóirín 2s)

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If we flip the coin we have a Cláirseach, aka the Gaelic harp. Now that's a symbol I am more familiar with...thanks to being an alcoholic a beer aficionado

The Celtic harp is a triangular frame harp traditional to the Celtic nations of northwest Europe. It is known as cláirseach in Irish, clàrsach in Scottish Gaelic, telenn in Breton and telyn in Welsh. In Ireland and Scotland, it was a wire-strung instrument requiring great skill and long practice to play, and was associated with the Gaelic ruling class. It appears on Irish coins, Guinness products, and the coat of arms of the Republic of Ireland, Montserrat, Canada and the United Kingdom source

Not much text here either, other than the minting date and SAORSTÁT ÉIREANN for Irish Free State!

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Nothing special on the edge either.

Ok, some more shots

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All in all, a simple coin. Just how I like them :D

Oh, almost forgot. It's 11.31 grams of 0.750 purity. Not bad 😁

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Ok, this is it for today plebs!

Stack on 🎉

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Nice add. Cheap silver is the best. I just sold 20oz to buy more LTC.

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Never understood why people get ltc 😆

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My sister married late in life, and the fellow she chose was very attached to his Irish roots. The had a simple reception, with one refinement: a harp player.

The harp side of that coin is really clear.

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That would be a great coin if you could see the detail of it.

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You looked great in the 1930s as well 😆

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I thought that you could only find salmon coins here in Canada hehehe
nice one!

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Greetings, I like the one with the fish because the detail near the edge of the coin matches like small sharp teeth, I think it looks good for the fish.

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detail near the edge of the coin matches like small sharp teeth

Nice..catch 😆

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I didn't know they were originally real silver!

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Salmons? :p

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I'm recalling the pre Euro 10 pence coin of the same design, when I was younger you'd occasionally still get some of the old pre decimal money floating about , 2S was the decimal 10pence, the "bull" was another, the 5p coin was a shilling:-)

"I'll bet ya the Bull", was a way of agreeing to a token shilling wager for sport, but it had the innuendo of something more valuable

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Hahaha, I don't think you're that stingy, maybe the coin deteriorated over time, time always takes its toll on everything

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A quaint reminder of my teen summers I worked on the salmon fishing ships. If only I was smart enough to start stacking then rather than spending away my cash on stupid stuff.

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Stack salmon? Sounds like a bad idea! 😧🤪

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Uncanny. 😅 I remember meeting a Shore worker guy who stacked silver back then. Now I understand what he was babbling about.

I love the taste of Sockeye salmon and keep a supply of Canned Sockeye on my shelf. The only issue is the elevated presence of Cesium 136 from the Fukishima disaster in Pacific sourced seafood. If you get cancer, you are as they say, Fuked.
I make sure to have my multivitamins with Iodine.

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Salmon of knowledge? That is weird and I don't think I have heard about it before. I guess they must love eating Salmon.

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It's a popular story in those places !

!pimp

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It's why you suck your thumb when searching for an answer or trying to remember something....do you know the story ? , it's a goodun

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Winters are here anyway, fish is a favorite and I would love to have such a beautiful design.

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Salmon and beer...
That's actually what the coin is for.

Fried or roasted Salmon with a pint of chilled Guinness and that's a meal that needs to be on silver!😌

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You have a great collection and no doubt you really have great interest for that.
Silver whale, looks pretty and you are also seems happy having this. Good luck to make new additions.

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