ID 1126393
Lot 11 | AN OLYMPIC GOLD MEDAL
Estimate value
$ 400 000 – 600 000
PRESENTED TO BOB BEAMON, MEXICO CITY, 1968, FOR THE MEN'S LONG JUMP
Executed in silver-gilt, the front cast with draped figure of Victory seated, holding a palm in her left hand, crown aloft in her right, the reverse with an Olympic champion carried on the shoulders of excited spectators through a stadium, suspended from a green ribbon, with wood presentation case with brass cover mount
2 3⁄8 in. (6 cm.) diameter
4 oz. 2 dwt. (128 gr.)
Provenance
Presented to Robert Beamon (b. 1946), 18 October 1968 at the Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Mexico.
Literature
B. Beamon, The Man who Could Fly: The Bob Beamon Story, 1999.
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