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Nelson Mandela’s golden hands sold for Sh1 billion

Nelson Mandela making the cast [Photo: Courtesy]

A crypto-currency firm has purchased four solid gold castings of the hands of South Africa's first black President Nelson Mandela.

According to Bloomberg, Arbitrade bought the casts at a whooping Sh1 billion ($10 million) in bitcoin from a South African businessman Malcolm Duncan.

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