Lot Archive
![](https://media.noonans.co.uk/database_images/Cataloguing%20System/Internet%20-%20Lots%20%28Images%29/494514/Internet%20Image%201_w500h500.jpg)
Kilkenny College, a silver award medal after W. Mossop, Minerva seated left holding a wreath, owl at feet, WB engraved in exergue, rev. wreath, named (Benjamin Bushbury, 1841), 36mm (Grimshaw 126; cf. BDW 3, 165). Usual die flaw on obverse, bright from past cleaning and with associated surface marks, otherwise very fine, rare £80-£100
Kilkenny College, the history of which dates back to 1538, was re-endowed by the Duke of Ormonde in 1667; the new college, erected in the 1780s, is now the present-day County Hall, Kilkenny
Share This Page