'Medal' turns out to be very expensive eight-dollar

An elderly Rotterdam couple was convinced that they had just an average medal. Yet they did not trust the judgment of a trader and requested a second opinion from Jacco Scheper, Heritage Auctions Europe (then MPO). During a fair in Rotterdam, Jacco informed them that their piece was not a medal but a unique, expensive coin that could yield 25,000 euros. A German collector paid a record-price for it