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- A silver medal from the 1896 Athens Olympics sold at Danish auction on March 1 for 900,000 Danish kroner, above its 200,000–300,000 kroner estimate.
- The medal was engraved by French artist Jules-Clement Chaplain and shows Zeus and Nike on one side with Acropolis on the reverse.
- The auction house notes Danish weightlifter Viggo Jensen was Denmark's first Olympic weightlifting champion, but it cannot confirm whether this medal earned that award.
