Online record for Sotheby’s as economist Friedrich von Hayek’s Nobel prize medal brings major bidding

A new record for any item sold in an online-only sale at Sotheby’s was set when the Nobel Memorial Prize for Economic Science awarded to Friedrich von Hayek (1899-1982) sold for £950,000.

Given in 1968 for “pioneering work in the theory of money and economic fluctuations”, it led a remar…

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