The Currency Commission (''Coimisiún Airgid Reatha''), was created by th

as part of the policy of the

Irish Free State The Irish Free State ( ga, Saorstát Éireann, , ; 6 December 192229 December 1937) was a state established in December 1922 under the Anglo-Irish Treaty of December 1921. The treaty ended the three-year Irish War of Independence between ...

to create the '

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'. The Currency Commission commissioned the Series A Banknotes, through the advice of an advisory commission. It also issued the ''Ploughman series'' of banknotes for Irish banks, which were legal tender until 1953. The Chairman of the Currency Commission was

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. On the adoption of the

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in 1937 the ''Currency Commission of the Irish Free State'' became the ''Currency Commission of Ireland''. In 1942 the Currency Commission was superseded by the Central Bank of Ireland.

References

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