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Coin collectors feeling short-changed in Ireland

IRELAND - Coin collectors seeking Irish euro coins have run into difficulties obtaining the new currency from the Central Bank.

Some collectors, including commercial firms, have found they are missing just one coin from their complete euro set - the one with the harp on the back.

Mr James Pickering, who runs Modern World Banknotes, a company dealing in coins and banknotes, says he has had no problems getting coins from the other 11 members-states that make up the euro zone.

But he has run

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