The medal features a portrait of Zeus on one side. The other side depicts the Acropolis in Athens. Bruun Rasmussen The Olympics date back to 776 B.C.E., when athletes first started gathering in ...

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A first-place Olympic medal from the first modern Olympics was sold at auction for DKK 1,152,000 ($178,510), three times its high estimate, by the Danish auction house Bruun Rasmussen Arts Auctioneers ...

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 ...