BRITISH TOKENS FROM THE COLLECTION FORMED BY THE LATE JEFFREY GARDINER (PART II)
BRITISH TOKENS, Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, Co ANTRIM, Belfast, North East Society (Estd. 1829), octagonal copper Penny, nourishment, etc, rev. one pennyworth of soup & bread for this ticket, 32 x 29mm (W 2360; D & W 170/526). Extremely fine and very rare
£100-150
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It is thought that these tokens were issued at the time of the potato famines of the mid-1840s