22 CARAT GOLD COIN IN GOLD MOUNT - COIN ENGRAVED KING & CONS...

Hammer

£3,000

22 CARAT GOLD COIN IN GOLD MOUNT - COIN ENGRAVED KING & CONSTITUTION & REVERSE 'THE GLORIOUS & IMMORTAL MEMORY 1690' THE MOUNT ENGRAVED TO BOTH SIDES 'PRESENTED BY THE ORANGEMEN OF LOUGHALL DISTRICT TO JAS VERNER OF CHURCH HILL CO.ARMAGH ESQ' AND TO OTHER SIDE OF MOUNT 'THE FATHER & FRIEND OF ORANGEMEN 1ST DAY OF JULY ANNO DOMINI 1806 ET ORANGIA 116'. THOMAS VERNER WAS ONE OF THE FOUNDER MEMBERS OF THE ORANGE INSTITUTION AND THE FIRST GRAND MASTER OF THE GRAND ORANGE ORDER OF IRELAND. THIS ITEM WAS PURCHASED FROM THE WARING ESTATE IN THE 1970'S BY THE CURRENT VENDORS MOTHER.