If you want to join the likes of Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr and Mother Teresa in having a Nobel Peace Prize it’s easy — you just need £50,000 in your back pocket.
A lost prize which surfaced in a South American pawn shop is going under the hammer, becoming only the second ever to be auctioned.
The 23-carat solid gold medal was awarded to Argentina’s foreign minister in 1936 for his role ending a brutal South American war which killed 100,000 people.
After he died in 1959, however, the prize’s whereabouts were unknown for decades.
Now it has emerged the medal was traded in at a pawn shop in South America 20 years ago.
Whoever brought the prize to the shop may have had no idea of its true value, instead trading the 222.4g piece for the value of its gold, Daily Mail informs.
