Ancient, British and World Coins, Numismatic Books

Republic (1937-, Ten Pence, 1969, rev. ftp in small block capitals. Very fine (£30-40)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Irish Countermarked Propaganda Coins.

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The notorious ftp graffito ‘exhorted the reader to inflict on His Holiness an activity that could be thought particularly inappropriate in the case of a professed celibate’ (Dolley, op. cit, p.60)