It stays?

The medal everyone's been talking about - Percy Fenton's Victory Medal - will end up at the Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia after all...or so we think:

With nine seconds to spare, Dave Thomson of St. George, Ont., placed the winning bid of $6,401 US (about $7,415 Cdn) for Fenton's 2nd Construction Battalion Victory Medal.

There had been concerns that the centre, a non-profit group, would not be able to add the medal to its collections because it didn't have the money to buy it.

But Thomson, who has helped recover more than 30 medals listed on eBay, said the seller agreed to give the cultural centre the time to gather enough donations to pay for the decoration.

So if the cultural centre can't scrape the money together, then what? Good for the seller to bend over backwards for the sake of community history, but this still seems like a fragile proposition to me.