How Much Is an Olympic Gold Medal Worth?
一块奥运会金牌值几钱？
If the International Olympic Committee still gave solid gold medals to first place finishers, said medals may be pretty valuable. But after the 1912 Games, they made the switch to silver medals coated in gold.
若是国际奥委会仍然给奥运冠军颁布纯金金牌的话，那么金牌就会十分值钱。但是自从1912年奥运会后，国际奥委会决定接纳镶金的银牌。
Solid：纯量的；纯的；
The gold medals for the Tokyo Olympics, created by Japanese designer Junichi Kawanishi, comprise roughly 6 grams of gold atop roughly 550 grams of pure silver. Since gold and silver rates, like stock prices, fluctuate pretty frequently, the value of the medal isn’t exactly static. But in general, it’s hovering somewhere above $800. A silver medal, made of 550 grams of pure silver, comes in at $462; and bronze medals, mostly copper and a little zinc, are worth just a few bucks.
东京奥运会的金牌由日本设想师Junichi Kawanishi打造，含有大约6克的金和大约550克的纯银。因为金银的价格像股票价格一样颠簸十分频繁，金牌的价值并不是始末稳定。但是，总体而言，金牌的价值大约在800美圆摆布。银牌由550克银打造，价值大约在462美圆；铜牌由大部门铜和少量锌构成，价值仅为几美圆。
But Olympic gold medals have value beyond the sum of their parts, and plenty of athletes have hocked them for much more than a paltry $800 or so. Mark Wells, a member of the “Miracle on Ice” US hockey team of 1980, sold his to a private collector, who auctioned it off for nearly $311,000 in 2010. Wells’s teammate, Mark Pavelich, made $262,900 off his own medal four years later.
但是奥运金牌的价值远超越其成本。许多运发动以远超800美圆的价格将奥运金牌拱手相让。Mark Wells，1980年美国曲棍球“冰上奇观队”的队员就将其金牌卖给了一位私家保藏家。那位保藏家在2010年以近乎31.1万美圆的价格将金牌拍卖。4年后，Wells的队友,Mark Pavelich依靠本身的金牌赚取了26.29万美圆。
Others end up in the auction circuit long after the original owners are gone. In 2013, for example, one of Jesse Owens’s gold medals from the 1936 Berlin Olympics sold for about $1.47 million in 2013.
其他金牌则在原仆人逝世很久之后呈现在拍卖行。好比，2013年，Jesse Owens从1936年柏林奥运会所获得的此中一块金牌就以大约147万美圆的价格被售出。
来源：Mental Floss 编纂：译锐翻译Susan