Saavedra Lamas

Scientists are not the only one to break $1 million: The 1936 Nobel Peace Prize medal awarded in 1936 to Carlos Saavedra Lamas, a former foreign minister of Argentina, sold for $1.1 million in 2014.

The 1936 peace prize awarded to Carlos Saavedra Lamas, the Argentine finance minister who convinced his country to join the League of Nations, sold for $1.16 million.

It had been awarded to Carlos Saavedra Lamas, foreign minister of Argentina, for his part in ending the Chaco War between Paraguay and Bolivia, and for his work on a South American antiwar pact signed in 1933.

"The great Republic of the North," cried Dr. Saavedra Lamas, "is a magnificent spectacle of human progress, continues to be in the contemporary world a creation that has never been surpassed in its political genius!"

While still acting as Foreign Minister, Dr. Saavedra Lamas expects soon to retire.