From The Times of India
Center Owned by Bennett, Coleman & Co.Man buys box of old medals for £25, discovers rare Captain Cook medal worth £5,000
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A man who bought a box of 22 old medals for just £25 at a car-boot sale in West Yorkshire discovered that one was a rare 18th-century medal commemorating Captain James Cook's death in 1779. After selling the other medals for £500, he took the rare piece to an auction house, where it later fetched…
