Winner’s medal from first Olympic Games in Athens takes six-figure sum at auction
A winner’s medal from the first Olympic Games which took place in Athens in 1896 took a hammer price of £105,730 (or £135,334 including buyer’s premium), three-times its estimate.
Engraved by French artist Jules-Clément Chaplain, the medal was sold at Bruun Rasmussen in Copenhage…