Irish Coins, Tokens and Historical Medals

Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, Co ANTRIM, Belfast, Workshops for the Blind, Dining Room, brass Halfpence (13, varieties), all 26mm (Woodside AN B78, 78A) [13]. Generally about very fine £60-£80

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Irish Tokens from the Collection of the late Barry Woodside.

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Provenance: Bt 2017.

The dining room in the Workshops for the Blind became known as the ‘Romper Room’, used by loyalist extremists in the early 1970s to torture and execute their captives and a perverse reference to a programme on Ulster TV at the time