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Metcalfe cemented his popularity as a prolific coin designer across varied dominions of the British Empire. His portrait of George V was used on the obverse of coins for Australia, Canada, Fiji, Mauritius and New Zealand. Percy Metcalfe’s designs for the florin , sixpence and threepence The new coinage and competing designs have been exhibited at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art in November 1928, before getting into circulation in December. Some critics thought the theme of livestock would reinforce a provincial Irish stereotype. Maud Gonne remarked that the farmyard set was lacking a jackass, and criticised Metcalfe’s work as …
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