It was sold by RR Auctions for a whopping $545,371. Bobby Eaton, the firm’s Olympic specialist, told the AP that medals from the 1904 games are “exceedingly rare,” hardly ever coming up for auction. In this case, the medal was curated from Schule’s family collection.

Unlike Olympic medals these days which are mostly made of silver with gold plating, these were smaller and made entirely of gold.

Somluck Kamsing, the country's first Olympic gold medallist, was sentenced to over three years in prison on Thursday for the abduction and attempted rape of a teenager.