Ancient, British and World Coins, Tokens, Tickets and Passes, Historical and Art Medals, Numismatic Books and Banknotes. Includes the Ellen Judson Collection of British Tokens (Part II)

Parsonstown Academy, an engraved silver award medal, 1797, seated Minerva holding wreath over boy, cherub flies above holding scroll inscribed sua præmia laudi, rev. engraved (This Medal was adjuged to Master John James for his Extraordinary Merit in the use of the Globes on the 14th day of July 1797), 51mm. A delightful medal, a little tarnished but extremely fine and very rare; set within rim and hinged suspender (£150-250)

M.E. Grimshaw, Silver Medals from Scottish and Irish Schools, 1989, illustrates two medals from the Ennis School, earlier by a few years and cruder in style, but with a similar though reversed design. Parsonstown, co Louth, in the province of Leinster, was to become famous for being home to the massive telescope built by William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, and known as the ‘Leviathan of Parsonstown’

The legend reads Globes, not Globe