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8 & 9 June 2016

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Lot

№ 1423

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9 June 2016

Hammer Price:
£190

Pub and Refreshment Checks, Co LOUTH, Drogheda, Byrne’s Hotel, copper Twopence-Halfpenny by Parkes [1861-72], 23mm (Rice 55; Todd 34; ‘Dublinia’ 448). About very fine, rare £80-100

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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Patrick Byrne, 31 West street, owned the Imperial Hotel in 1881; the establishment had previously been owned by Thomas Simcock, 1856-70. The directories do not show a hotelier by the name of Byrne during the likely period of the token’s issue