Four silver educational prize medals: engraved, 37mm, Anthena stands by the shore, rev. wreath (Franciscus Ferris 1874), loop suspension, 20.78g, nearly extremely fine; Rathmine's School, struck and with engraved award details, 43mm, owl on a globe with classical texts, Acropolis in the background, rev. wreath (Christmas 1874 Classics), 36.83g, cased, pierced for suspension, otherwise good very fine; Working Men's College, Duke of York's Medal, struck, 51mm, royal arms, rev. view of the college, edge engraved (T.A. BALLINGER. 1932), 63g, extremely fine; and St Edmund's College Ware, struck, 51mm, female figures, one holding cross and grail, rev. facade of the college 1805, unnamed, good very fine or better. [4]

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