Roscommon medal sold for €20,000
Published March 21st, 2007
One of the medals awarded to a player in Roscommon’s first All-Ireland Football title has fetched €20,000 at auction.
The 9ct GAA celtic cross style medal was sold to an anonymous telephone bidder at auction in Dublin this afternoon.
The 1943 All-Ireland win was the first of a two in a row for the County team which was captained by the late Jimmy Murray.
Mealy’s Auctioneers had a reserve of between €2,500 and €3,500 for the medal which was lot 803 at the auction held in the Tara Towers Hotel in Dublin today.
A unique set of All-Ireland Senior Football medals Wexford’s four-in-row, 1915, 16, 17, & 1918 fetched E24,000.
The Wexford medals had been won by Wexford’s Jim Byrne.
George Mealy of Mealy Auctioneers said the price fetched for the Roscommon medal had exceeded all expectations.
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