Irish Coins & Historical Medals

Dublin International Exhibition [of] Arts and Manufactures, 1865, a copper award medal by A. Geefs, winged figure emptying cornucopiæ over building, rev. wreath, named (Earl Russell, For Services), 75mm. Very fine, obverse better, patinated; in maroon fitted case of issue, a most interesting association item £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 47, 19 March 2003, lot 1316.

Lord John Russell, 1st Earl (1792-1878), elected to the House of Commons as a Whig in 1813; espoused the causes of Catholic emancipation and electoral reform, 1828-31; Home Secretary 1835-9, liberalizing the government of Ireland; Prime Minister 1846-52; Foreign Secretary under Lord Palmerston, 1859-65, succeeding him as Prime Minister on the latter’s death, 1865; resigned 1866