Pub and Refreshment Checks, Co DUBLIN, Dublin, M[ichael] Donoghue, copper by Parkes [1853-8], 22mm, ep, 12h (Rice 120; Todd 75; Withers 6020 [not seen]; Macalister 853; ‘Dublinia’ 327). Very fine and extremely rare £100-150

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, British Tokens from the Collection formed by the late Neil Todd.

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Michael Donoghue, vintner, 1 Fitzwilliam lane, 1847-56, fined £12 10s on 10 January 1855 for selling wine without the proper licence; original subscriber to the Dargan Institute (now the National Gallery of Ireland), February 1855 (Powell, TCSB December 2014, p.178)