Shopper's £25 box of medals hides rare Captain Cook piece sold for £5,000
A man in West Yorkshire bought a box of 22 old medals for £25 at a car-boot sale. Among them was a rare 18th-century medal commemorating the death of Captain James Cook in 1779. He sold the remaining medals for £500 and took the rare piece to an auction house, where it fetched £5,000. The Captain Cook Memorial Museum in Whitby bought the medal for a special exhibition planned for 2028.
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