MSN: This rare silver medal from the first modern Olympic Games in 1896 just sold at auction
This rare silver medal from the first modern Olympic Games in 1896 just sold at auction
A medal awarded at the first modern Olympic Games smashed auction estimates, selling for about four times its expected price at a Danish auction house on March 1. The silver medal from the 1896 Athens ...
An extraordinary piece of sporting and cultural history has sold at auction in Denmark. A medal from the world's first modern Olympic Games held in Athens in 1896 has fetched around €100,000 at a sale ...
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Yahoo! Sports: 'A rare crown jewel': World's first modern Olympic medal fetches €120,000 at auction
'A rare crown jewel': World's first modern Olympic medal fetches €120,000 at auction
AUSTIN (KXAN) — If Zorro carried a pistol, he probably would have been an Olympic gold medalist at the modern pentathlon. The obscure event that combines five disciplines — horse jumping, fencing, ...