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The price goes up for sets with intricate designs and historical significance. Currently, a set of vintage 1990s authentic silverware is priced upwards of $2,699.95 Final Take To GO
The current record price for a single stamp is US$9,480,000 paid for the British Guiana 1c magenta. [1] [2] This list is ordered by consumer price index inflation-adjusted value (in bold) in millions of United States dollars in 2023. [note 1] Where necessary, the price is first converted to dollars using the exchange rate at the time the item ...
The Boston Globe took a look inside the world of rare-bill collectors who are all about "fancy" serial numbers. It turns out those eight-digit numbers can be attractive in all sorts of ways to ...
When the BEP identified mistakes in the printing of the 1899 Black Eagle, they printed replacement notes that had a star preceding the serial number on the obverse. There are 13 varieties of the 1899 Black Eagle; the value of the note to modern-day currency collectors is dependent on both their condition and whose signature appears on the note ...
Many rare coin price records were broken in the January 14, 2024, Florida United Numismatist (FUN) auction, including the finest known example of an 1855 Kellogg & Co. $50 for $1.26 million, one of only two known examples of an 1860 Half Eagle for $1.14 million, and the finest known example of an 1851 Schultz & Co. Half Eagle which drew $1.02 ...
Have you ever found a $20 bill and wondered, "Is my bill's serial number worth anything?" To find the value, you'll need to do a little bit of research. Read on to learn more about serial numbers ...
The first book to achieve a sale price of greater than $1 million was a copy of the Gutenberg Bible which sold for $2.4 million in 1978. The most copies of a single book sold for a price over $1 million is John James Audubon's The Birds of America (1827–1838), which is represented by eight different copies in this list.
Cosey's career of historical forgery began by chance. In 1929, he went to the Library of Congress and asked to see some old documents; he stole a pay warrant endorsed by Benjamin Franklin in 1786. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] When he tried to sell it to a New York City book dealer, however, the dealer told him it was a fake. [ 2 ]