Coins, Paper Money, Tokens and Historical Medals

Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, Refreshment checks: Co ANTRIM, Belfast, Belfast CSL, Pennies (2), Halfpence (2) (Rains 11, 14), Canteen Penny (Rains 35); Workshops for the Blind, Dining Room, brass Halfpence (2), both 26mm, William Ewart & Son Ltd, uniface Penny canteen check, 1907, 31mm (cf. DNW 60, 1295); Co DUBLIN, Dublin, Dublin Gasworks Canteen, uniface brass Twopence, 29mm (Rice 127; cf. Todd 1363), M[urtagh] K[avanagh], copper Twopence by Parkes [1861-72], 23mm (Rice 213; cf. Todd 1381); together with Friends of the Guinness, brass, 25mm [11]. Fine to very fine, but Gasworks Twopence scratched on obverse £60-80

The dining room in the Workshops for the Blind became the Rumple Room, used by loyalist extremists in the early 1970s to torture and execute their captives