Coins, Medals and Paper Money of Ireland

Royal Agricultural Improvement Society of Ireland (Inst. 1841), a silver award medal by T.W. Ingram after W.H. Lizars, seated Hibernia crowning farmworker with wreath, plough and animals at sides, rev. wreath, named (To Robert Sharp, Ballymoney, 1847), edge impressed (For the Greatest Quantity of Thorough Draining in the Ballymoney Farming Society), 45mm (Lane, Went and Bateson, NSI Occ. Papers 19, no. 1; cf. DNW M7, 2318). Better than very fine, toned, an early award; in contemporary maroon case of issue £100-150