A man paid just £25 for a box of 22 old medals at a Yorkshire car-boot sale; one turned out to be a rare 1779 tribute to Captain James Cook and sold for £5,000 to a museum planning a major exhibition

A box of old medals bought for just £25 at a car-boot sale in West Yorkshire, England, has turned into an unexpected discovery for its buyer.

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