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…

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