QUOTE(banivechi @ Aug 10 2006, 12:49 PM)
No kidding, I have a German notmunze from Pirmasens city with a lady shoe on Rv!
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That makes sense since Pirmasens was and (and to some extent is) a center of the shoe/leather industry. They also have a shoe museum there ...
As for the harp, that is not necessarily a reference to Ireland. Here are quite few images of similar "jetons à consommer" (consumption tokens):
http://www.jetons-monnaie.net/p/jetonaconsommer.html Have not spotted the harp there though.
Christian