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11 March 2020

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Irish Coins & Historical Medals

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Lot

№ 351

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11 March 2020

Hammer Price:
£110

Royal Agricultural Improvement Society of Ireland, 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 (John G. Coddington, Timolin, 1843), edge impressed (For the Best Five Acres of Thorough Draining in the Ballytore Farming Society), 45mm (Lane, Went and Bateson, NSI Occ. Papers 19, no. 1). Some scratching in obverse field, otherwise about extremely fine and toned, an early award £150-£200

Provenance: J. Spencer Collection, DNW Auction M5, 17 December 2007, lot 1171