A diamond-encrusted pin that once belonged to Napoleon Bonaparte was sold at a Sotheby's auction in Geneva yesterday for a staggering €3.79 million. The final price dramatically exceeded all expectations, as the auction house had initially estimated its value between €130,000 and €220,000.
The historic piece was one of the personal items Napoleon was forced to abandon while fleeing the battlefield at Waterloo in present-day Belgium.
The pin was subsequently taken as a spoil of war by the Prussian army following the defeat of the French Emperor's forces by British and Prussian troops in 1815.
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