Trafalgar gold medal sells for record £248,800

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What's more valuable - a medal awarded to Admiral Lord Nelson, or one awarded to the captain he urged to kiss him as he lay dying from a sniper's bullet. Read the Bloomberg.com account of the Christie's sale here.