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The medal that spoke

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In 1806,  Maori chief Te Pahi  was gifted a silver medal by Sydney Governor Philip Gidley King. He had come from Aotearoa to establish trade.

But  the medal then disappeared.

Two centuries later, Te Pahi's medal resurfaced – in a Sydney auction house

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