Auction Catalogue

13 May 2015

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Coins, Tokens and Historical Medals

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Lot

№ 1700

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13 May 2015

Hammer Price:
£170

Inistiage & Thomastown Farming Society, a copper award medal by I. Parkes, named (To Mrs Flood, Floodhall, 1st Prize, for Ploughing in 1st Class, 1861), 47mm; Death of Eamon de Valera, 1975, a bronze medal, unsigned [by Spink], 57mm (Went 159; E 2133) [2]. First with rubbing to high points of obverse, otherwise good very fine and very rare, second as struck, in case of issue £100-150

The Floods of Flood Hall, Kilkenny, were a famous Irish family whose roots trace back to the 16th century