Nobel medal has been sold before
Since the 1980s, the Nobel medal has been made with 18-karat recycled gold, according to the Nobel Committee. And, in a few auctions, it has fetched a wide range of prices. Francis Crick, who was awarded the prize with Watson, received over $2 million for his medal. The Nobel Peace Prize awarded in 1936 to Carlos Saavedra Lamas, a former foreign minister of Argentina, sold for $1.1 million in 2014. But not all attempts to sell the medal have brought staggering returns.The 1994 medal awarded to John Nash for his work in game theory sold for under $1 million in 2019. The 1982 prize awarded to physicist Kenneth Wilson failed to reach a minimum bid of $450,000 in 2016. And William Faulkner’s failed to sell in 2013, after bidding stalled at $425,000, short of the minimum.
