A Rome 1960 Olympic Games silver prize medal and silver prize medal diploma awarded to the Soviet water polo player Boris Goykhman, in silver, designe
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A Rome 1960 Olympic Games silver prize medal and silver prize medal diploma awarded to the Soviet water polo player Boris Goykhman, in silver, designed by Giuseppe Cassioli, the obverse with Victory seated over a stadium, the reverse with a winner being carried by jubilant athletes, encircled in bronze olive leaves and inscribed at the base PALLANUOTO, complete with the original bronze suspension chain formed of olive leaf links; sold together with Goikhman's silver prize medal diploma jointly issued by the IOC and Rome Organising Committee, framed & glazed, 40 by 54cm., 15 ¾ by 21in. (2)