Central Bank coins the wrong phrase

There will be a few red faces in the Central Bank today.

Central Bank coins the wrong phrase

There will be a few red faces in the Central Bank today.

They have brought out a silver commemorative coin honouring James Joyce which has an embarrassing mistake on it.

The €10 coin, which is on sale for €46 at the minute (go figure!), has a portrait of Joyce with a misquoted line from his lengthy tome Ulysses.

We're sure you all know it….

No? Well here it is: "Ineluctable modality of the visible: at least that if no more, thought through my eyes. Signatures of all things I am here to read."

They are from the third chapter as Stephen Dedalus has a bit of a think on Sandymount Strand.

The Central Bank coin has an extra "that" in the second sentence.

We're sure your man David Norris is up in arms over it.

The Central Bank, who blamed a member of staff for miscopying the quote, have said they will keep selling it, but are offering refunds.

Oh, by-the-way, the coin was minted in Germany.

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