Republic (1937-, Ten Pence, 1969, rev. ulster vanguard in small block capitals. Very fine (£30-40)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Irish Countermarked Propaganda Coins.

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The Vanguard movement represented a formidable amalgam of loyalist groupings which voiced their concerns at the overthrowing of Stormont in March 1972 and attempted to find a real alternative to direct rule. They formed a short-lived ‘doomsday’ paramilitary wing, the Vanguard Service Corps, of which the politician David Trimble was once a senior member