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Now you can have your own Nobel prize – but you’ll have to BUY it at auction as 1936 Peace medal goes under hammer after it was found in pawn shop

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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.

The man’s descendants have now decided to sell it, meaning its history can be revealed.

The solid gold medal will be auctioned in Baltimore by New York’s Stack’s Bowers Galleries on March 27 and the value of its gold alone is said to be $9,168 (£5,521).

The 1936 prize is expect to fetch at least $50,000 to $100,000 (£30,106 to £60,212).

 

 

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Edward Snowden nominated for Nobel Peace Prize by Norwegian MP

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A Norwegian member of parliament nominated former US National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden for the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize on Wednesday, arguing that his release of classified documents made the world a safer place.

Baard Vegar Solhjell, a former education and environment minister for the Socialist Left party, said Snowden’s revelations deepened the public’s understanding of the extent to which states spy on their own citizens.

Thousands of people around the world are eligible to nominate candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize, including any member of any national assembly. There were 259 nominees for last year’s prize, which was won by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons for its efforts to eliminate Syria’s chemical arsenal.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee will collect nominations for the 2014 prize up to Feb 1 and finalise its list on March 4, when the committee holds its first meeting of the year and members submit their own nominations. The winner will be announced on Oct 10.

 

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