The Earliest Coins Of Ireland

I concur, great article.

Willy- Completely awesome set of coins there. Wow!!

Common enough ideas about early Ireland!

Simple Misconceptions based upon assumption of what coin money should look like!

Clearly the author has little 'genuine' Irish historic knowledge or they would have at the very least mentioned ring money.

and no excuse as the ancient use of specifically made metallic objects for trade (aka money) in Ireland, is not exactly a recent discovery
http://www.jstor.org/stable/2548978...tab_contents

Anyone who has ever set foot in the National museum of Ireland, will be able to recall piles of gold objects from pre Christian times.

Including one very large glass display of piles of what many assume as ear rings!

It is money! coinage equivalent for every intense and purpose.

In the Irish annals (written long before the English or most other Europeans even had a recognisable language) there are multiple references to ring tributes and fines of rings in varying amounts!

Several European nations still produce coins with a centre hole.
Flat now for modern convenience, but ring money in design or origin.

someone might inform the article author that this supposed 'English King Henry ii' never actually spoke a word of English (it never actually existed) Henry like the latter Richard the lionheart spoke their ancestral French.
Normans Norsemen of Northern France.

They were French empirical rulers in every sense.
language and every cultural habit.

Hence The Angevins base is in France.

History is a little more complex than the simplistic article suggests.