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£25 medal box yields rare Captain Cook find worth £5,000

A West Yorkshire man paid just twenty-five pounds for twenty-two medals, then found one commemorating Captain James Cook’s death. The rare eighteenth-century medal sold for five thousand pounds and will feature in a Whitby museum exhibition.
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