395, Lot: 608. Estimate $100. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IRELAND. temp. Victoria. 1837-1901. AR Medal (51.5mm, 58.16 g, 12h). Trinity College Dublin – Prize Medal for Letters and Humanities. Dated 1591. Presented to Thomas Tracey, 1857. COLL · SS · ET · INDIVID · TRIN · REG · ELIZABETHÆ · IVXTA · DVBL · 1591, diademed bust of Elizabeth I facing slightly left, wearing elaborate ruff / LITERIS HUMANIORIBUS FELICITER EXCULTIS, coat-of-arms on shamrock-patterned background; rose and portcullis flanking; engraved below, Thomas Tracey Sch 1857. EF, toned, flan crack.

From the J. Eric Engstrom Collection.