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

as part of the policy of the

Irish Free State The Irish Free State (6 December 192229 December 1937), also known by its Irish-language, Irish name ( , ), was a State (polity), state established in December 1922 under the Anglo-Irish Treaty of December 1921. The treaty ended the three-ye ...

to create the ' Saorstát pound'. The Currency Commission commissioned the

Series A Banknotes The Series A banknotes () were the first banknotes created by and for the Irish Free State in 1928Central Bank of Ireland Series A (1928 - 1975 / 77) “The Lady Lavery Series”/ref> and continued to be issued when the Free State became the R ...

, 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 Joseph Brennan. 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 In 1942 the Currency Commission was superseded by the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 The Central Bank of Ireland () is the national central bank for Ireland within the Eurosystem. It was the Irish central bank from 1943 to 1998, issuing the Irish pound. It is also the country's main financial regulatory authority, and since 2 ...

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