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World's largest gold coin set for auction |
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The largest gold coin in the world -- measuring 53 centimetres (21 inches) in diameter and weighing 100 kilograms (220 pounds) -- will go on sale on June 25 in Vienna, auction house Dorotheum said on Friday.
The Maple Leaf coin, which is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records and carries a face value of one million Canadian dollars (800,000 euros, 970,000 dollars), was minted in Canada in 2007.
The auction price is expected to comfortably exceed the face value due to the current high price of gold. If melted down, the gold would be worth around 3.9 million dollars (3.2 million euros).
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World Cup: Medieval three lions badge found in Coventry |
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An archaeologist who found a medieval badge featuring the England football team's three lions logo hopes it will prove a good World Cup omen.
The copper piece was found in the ground last week in a stone wall in Coventry by Caroline Rann. The badge, thought to be from a horse's harness, is believed to date from the 13th Century. A Football Association spokesman said its resemblance to the England logo was "uncanny".
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Call for Battle of Culloden red coat memorial |
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A military historian has called for a memorial to soldiers who fought the Jacobites at the Battle of Culloden.
Trevor Royle said the government army has no equivalent to the markers on the battlefield which recall their foes.
Writing in the National Trust for Scotland's magazine, he said little was known of those who served in the red coat regiments on 16 April 1746.
The site where fallen government soldiers were buried was only recently identified by archaeologists.
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'Oldest leather shoe' discovered |
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The oldest example of a leather shoe has been discovered by archaeologists in a cave in Armenia.
At 5,500 years old, the well preserved cow-hide shoe pre-dates Stonehenge by 400 years and the Pyramids of Giza by 1,000 years.
It was made of a single piece of leather and was shaped to fit the wearer's foot, the researchers say.
They have published details of the discovery from south-east Armenia in the journal Plos One.
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Replica mosaic is to be auctioned |
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A reconstruction of the largest Roman mosaic ever found in Britain is to go on sale later this year.
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