Precious metal from York City's golden days is to go under the hammer.

A gold medal from the history-making City title side of 1983-84 is among almost 700 lots for sale at an auction of football memorabilia at the Glasgow showroom of Christie's on June 20.

Tabled at 'lot 81' the medal marking the record-breaking Fourth Division championship conquest when City became the first team to plunder more than 100 points has been given a reserve price of £300 to £400. There is, however, no indication of where the medal has come from and to whom it belongs, its inclusion in the mouth-watering sale listed merely under 'various properties'.

The piece of City football folklore is described in Christie's glossy colour catalogue as "a nine-carat gold and enamel medal, the obverse inscribed 'Canon League Division Winners', the reverse inscribed 'Season 1983-84', with ring suspension." As a footnote to the item the catalogue adds that City topped Division Four with 101 points.

City club secretary Keith Usher said as far as he knew this was the first time a City item had formed part of such a high-profile auction.

A medal of even more prominence and provenance heads the extensive range of football memorabilia covering boots to programmes, and shirts to even a car bearing the registration '1966 AD', at the auction.

The World Cup winner's medal belonging to England defender George Cohen from the 1996 triumph over West Germany at Wembley is among 17 'properties' offered for auction by the right-back.

And not surprisingly the sale's highest reserve price of between £60,000 and £80,000 has been placed on that golden sliver of England's greatest international day.

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