Irish Coins & Historical Medals

TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN, a silver engraved award medal for Oratory, 1795, Apollo with wreath, rev. legend, named (The Historical Society…adjudged this Medal to Mr. Preston Fitzgerald for his distinguished merit in Oratory), 51mm. Has been cleaned, but very fine and very rare; with swivel suspension loop £500-£600

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Irish Historical Medals, the Property of a Gentleman.

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Provenance: DNW Auction 58, 24-5 June 2003, lot 1422.

Preston Fitzgerald (1777-1824), Dublin artist and poet