Rare gold medal from the 1904 St. Louis Olympics sells big at auction
A gold medal awarded at the first Olympics hosted on U.S. soil has sold at auction for over half a million dollars.
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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 ...
A rare gold medal from 1904 St. Louis Olympics sells for $545,371 at auction
Unlike Olympic medals these days which are mostly made of silver with gold plating, these were smaller and made entirely of ...
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Modern Pentathlon
Baron Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympic Games, highly appreciated the pentathlon of the ancient Games. He proposed a similar competition that would test the strengths of a “complete” ...
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A rare gold medal from the 1904 St. Louis Olympics is up for auction
It took the founder of the modern Olympic movement, Pierre de Coubertin, to forge peace by moving the Olympics 300 miles (483 kilometers) south. If that drama weren't enough, Fred Lorz looked to ...
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A rare gold medal from the 1904 St. Louis Olympics sells for $545,371 at auction
It took the founder of the modern Olympic movement, Pierre de Coubertin, to forge peace by moving the Olympics 300 miles (483 kilometers) south. If that drama weren’t enough, Fred Lorz looked to ...