Olympic Gold

WITH THE SUMMER GAMES ON THE SCHEDULE, HERE’S A LOOK AT RELATED COLLECTIBLES FROM THE HERITAGE AUCTIONS ARCHIVES

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• SUMMER SPORTS CARD CATALOG AUCTION 50043
July 22-24, 2021
HA.com/50043a
• SPORTS SHOWCASE AUCTION 60008
Aug. 19, 2021
HA.com/60008a
INQUIRIES
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**1924 Paris Summer Olympics**
**Gold Medal Awarded to**
**Member of Uruguayan Soccer Team**
*Earned by Fermín Uriarte as a member of the Uruguayan football team*
Sold for: $26,290 October 2012

1980 Mike Eruzione hockey jersey — **1980 Mike Eruzione**
**“Miracle on Ice” Game-Worn**
**USA Olympic Hockey Jersey**
*Key artifact of the greatest underdog story ever told*
Sold for: $657,250
February 2013

1972 Munich Olympics gymnastics gold medal — **1972 Munich Olympics**
**USSR Women’s Gymnastics**
**Team Gold Medal**
**from the Olga Korbut Collection**
*Won by one of the sport’s greatest gymnasts*
Sold for: $66,000
February 2017

First olympic medal -1896 Athens Summer — **1896 Athens Summer Olympics**
**First Place Silver Medal**
*From the first edition of the Modern Games*
Sold for: $65,725
November 2016

1960 Oscar Robertson basketball jersery — **1960 Oscar Robertson**
**Rome Summer Olympics Game-Worn**
**USA Basketball Team Jersey**
*Olympics squad was enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame*
Sold for: $66,000
August 2018

1924 Ethel Lackie swimming medal — **1924 Ethel Lackie**
**Paris Summer Olympics**
**Gold Medal for 100M**
**Freestyle Swimming**
*One of two Gold Medals earned by the seventeen-year old American*
Sold for: $19,120
August 2013

1912 Stockholm Summer Olympics medal trap shooting — **1912 Stockholm Summer Olympics**
**Individual Gold Medal for Trap Shooting**
*The last solid gold medal issued for Olympic competition*
Sold for: $35,850
February 2014

1904 St. Louis Men's Relay — **1904 St. Louis**
**Summer Olympics Gold Medal**
*Awarded to Four-Mile Men’s Relay Winner George B. Underwood*
Sold for: $38,837
May 2013

Torch - 1960 Rome Summer Olympics — **1960 Rome Summer Olympics**
**Final Torch of the Flame Relay**
*Among the most celebrated Games in history*
Sold for: $28,680
February 2016

This article appears in the July 2021 edition of The Intelligent Collector magazine.

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