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This Rare Gold Medal From the 1904 Olympics Sold for More Than $500,000
The artifact, from the first Games held in the United States, reaped the third-highest price ever fetched for an Olympic medal at auction ...
Rare 1904 Olympic Gold Medal Auctioned for Astonishing Sum
It was sold by RR Auctions for a whopping $545,371. Bobby Eaton, the firm’s Olympic specialist, told the AP that medals from ...