Coins, Tokens and Historical Medals

A Winner’s Medal from the first modern Olympic Games:

GREECE, Olympic Games, Athens, 1896, a bronze award medal [for Second Prize] by J.-C. Chaplain, facing head of Zeus, holding globe in right hand atop which is robed Victory holding wreath, rev. view of the Acropolis, 50mm (GV 1; cf. Sincona 11, 1562). Fine, very rare £500-£1,000

At the inaugural Olympic Games in Athens in 1896 winners were presented with silver medals, second-placed athletes with bronze medals; those placing third, along with all other athletes, only received participation medals