In 2001 Banks sold his World Cup Winners medal at Christie's auction house in London.

The First Spouse Program under the Presidential $ 1 Coin Act authorizes the United States Mint to issue 1 / 2 ounce $ 10 gold coins and bronze medal duplicates to honor the first spouses of the United States. The Martha Washington coin was released on June 19, 2007, and was sold out in hours.

He sold the gold medal for $ 15 and decided that boxing was a good way to make cash.

" It is noteworthy that his Order of Canada medal was sold at auction in 1981, the first time the Order of Canada is known to have been sold.

Wave Race sold well enough to earn a Player's Choice medal and was later followed by two sequels: Wave Race 64 and Wave Race: Blue Storm.

He was left out of the FA Cup winning team, and failed to make enough appearances to merit another Premier League title winners medal, and soon after the end of the season, he was sold to Coventry City for £ 2 million.

After the Copa América and Olympic Games ( where Argentina national team won its first gold medal with Mascherano and Lucho González as part of the team ), River sold most of its figures, so Cavenaghi, Lucho González, Javier Mascherano, Marcelo Salas and Maximiliano López left the club that same year.

The VC medal was returned to his family from the Army Services Medical Museum in 1994 and was sold to the Lord Ashcroft Trust in 2004.

Kenna's medal group was sold for a record high A $ 1, 002, 000 to an unknown buyer.

After Baker's death it was sold to a collector at a low price but then found to have been the genuine medal.

In April 2004 Jackson's VC medal was sold at auction for £ 235, 250 ( GBP ) against a pre-auction estimate of £ 130, 000.

The medal went missing sometime in the 1970s, apparently stolen, and was sold to an antique shop along with some Hawaiian coins in the mid-1990s.

The medal was sold by auction in South Africa through Stephan Welz and Co. ( incorporating Sotheby's ) on 25 October 1999 and was purchased by Lord Ashcroft.

In March 2010 it was announced that his VC is to be sold at auction in May by medal and coin specialists Spink's, with an estimated price of £ 100, 000 – 120, 000.

The sale took place on 22 April 2010 with the medal and the cannonball being sold for £ 252, 000 ($ 387, 500 ).

The Sotheby's auction house in London were about to auction the medal that had previously been sold by Patrick Mullane's relatives.

She made him promise that the medal would never be sold as she said that she lost a son, and she considered it would be blood money.

Forced to pay for a new one from his own pocket, Hitch also lost his job soon afterwards when he was accused of faking the fall to hide the fact that he had sold his medal to raise funds.

It was sold again in 1953 to an anonymous benefactor of the Royal Norfolk Regiment, together with Parkes ' Ghuznee medal.

Both Crimean medals ( without the Ghuznee medal or a VC, real or copy ), were sold at Sotheby's ( part of lot 110 ), for £ 3-18s-0d on 21 June 1906-in a sale at which the Crimean campaign medals of another four Light Brigade men were also sold.

These are presumably the two Crimean medals that in the mid-1950s were somehow reunited with Parkes ' Ghuznee medal and his VC and sold to the 4th Hussars.

His widow sold the medal, but his descendants re-purchased the medal in 1959 and later lent in to be displayed at his regimental museum within Derby Museum.

In this third year at the university, Hans, in 1797, was awarded the first important token of recognition, a gold medal for his essay on `` Limits Of Poetry And Prose ''.

`` In the same five year period that the United States says they ( the detectives ) were engaged in this conspiracy '', Sokol continued, `` these three young men received a total of 26 creditable mentions and many special compensations, and were nominated for the Lambert Tree award and the mayor's medal ''.

Karpov won a gold medal for academic excellence in high school, and entered Moscow State University in 1968 to study mathematics.

She stayed for two years, winning a good-conduct medal in December 1836, and returning home only during Christmas and summer holidays.

When awarded for acts of heroism, the medal is awarded with the " V " Device.

Thus, the first Olympic medals in curling, which at the time was played outside, were awarded for the 1924 Winter Games, with the gold medal won by Great Britain and Ireland, two silver medals by Sweden, and the bronze by France.

In 1942 The National Institute of Arts and Letters awarded her a gold medal for lifetime achievement.

was conferred upon Brewster by Marischal College, Aberdeen ; in 1815 he was made a member of the Royal Society of London, and received the Copley medal ; in 1818 he received the Rumford Medal of the society ; and in 1816 the French Institute awarded him one-half of the prize of three thousand francs for the two most important discoveries in physical science made in Europe during the two preceding years.

* Distinguished Conduct Medal, British and Commonwealth medal for extreme bravery

The Danish flag at the medal ceremony for the Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's team pursuit | men's team pursuit at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.

Separate Distinguished Service Medals exist for the different branches of the military as well as a fifth version of the medal which is a senior award of the United States Department of Defense.

## NSN for replacement medal is 8455-00-246-3830.

Architects Edward Lippincott Tilton and William Alciphron Boring received a gold medal at the 1900 Paris Exposition for the building's design.

While Bannister was well known in the artistic community of his adopted home of Providence, Rhode Island and admired within the wider East Coast art world ( he won a bronze medal for his large oil " Under the Oaks " at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial ), he was largely forgotten for almost a century for a complexity of reasons, principally connected with racial prejudice.

Following the 2004 Summer Olympics, President Romano Prodi pointed out that the combined medal total of the European Union was far greater than that of any other country and called for EU athletes to fly the European flag at the following games alongside their own as a sign of solidarity ( which did not happen ).

Baudot received little help from the French Telegraph Administration for his system, and often had to fund his own research, even having to sell the gold medal awarded by the 1878 Exposition Universelle during 1880.

On June 15, 2012, Powers was posthumously awarded the Silver Star medal for demonstrating “ exceptional loyalty ” while enduring harsh interrogation in the Lubyanka Prison in Moscow for almost two years.

* Allen J. Scott ( born 1938 ), winner of Vautrin Lud Prize in 2003 and the Anders Retzius Gold medal 2009 ; author of numerous books and papers on economic and urban geography, known for his work on regional development, new industrial spaces, agglomeration theory, global city-regions and the cultural economy.

Students who do not receive medals do not have their scores published, making it impossible for a country to be ranked by adding together scores of its competitors unless each wins a medal.

Canadian military attaché Herbert Cyril Thacker served in the field with Japanese forces in the Russo – Japanese War ( 1904 – 05 ), for which the Japanese government awarded him the Order of the Sacred Treasure, Third Class and the Japanese War medal for service during that campaign.