2017-01-05 Thu

Summer and Winter Olympics winners’ medals, participation medals, Olympic torches and related items will be up for sale from 12th to 19th January. The identity of the medal winner and the sport for which the medal was won will be revealed only to the final bidder.

A 1960 Rome Summer Olympics medal that was awarded to Soviet sprint canoeist Aleksandr Silayev has an estimated value of more than $6,000. Italian painter and sculptor Giuseppe Cassioli designed the medal in a bronze laurel wreath bezel.

The obverse features Victory, holding a laurel wreath and palm branch, sitting on the Coliseum along with the inscription GIOCHI DELLA XVII OLIMPIADE, ROMA MCMLX. The reverse features an athlete, with a palm branch and the stadium in the background. The Italian sports name CANOA is also depicted on the obverse.