Irish Tokens from the Collection of the late Barry Woodside
Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, Co CLARE, Shannon Airport, Garden State Plaza, Irish Airlines, wooden nickel, good for one irish coffee, 38mm; Co DUBLIN, Dublin Airport, Aer Lingus, uniface aluminium, stamped 348 tea, 29mm, uniface pink fibre, stamped t, 22mm; together with a Friends of the Guinnless brass Guinnie, 25mm [4]. Very fine £10-£20
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Provenance: Second and third F.E. Dixon Collection.
The first Dublin Airport token pre-dates 1952, when these pieces were withdrawn because they were being imitated and replaced by those of pink fibre