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900-year-old chess piece bought for change fetches hundreds of thousands at auction

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The chess piece, part of a 12th-century set found buried in Scotland, was bought for £5 in 1964 and kept in a drawer for 55 years, with the owners unaware of its value. It sold at Sotheby's for £735,000, a new record for a medieval piece at the auction house.

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