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The price had risen to $3,000 before eBay closed the auction. [8] [9] In May 2006, the remains of U.S. Fort Montgomery, a stone fortification in upstate New York built in 1844, were put up for auction on eBay. The first auction ended on June 5, 2006, with a winning bid of US$5,000,310.
List of most expensive coins Price Year Type Grade Issuing country Provenance Firm Date of sale $18,900,000 1933 1933 double eagle: MS-65 CAC United States: King Farouk of Egypt: Sotheby's [1] June 8, 2021 $12,000,000 1794 Flowing Hair dollar: SP-66 CAC United States Neil, Carter Private sale [2] January 24, 2013 $9,360,000 1787 Brasher ...
The auction included a $2.28 million world record for the most expensive British coin ever sold at public auction. [ 39 ] An original poster promoting a 1953 Hank Williams concert in Canton, Ohio, on New Year's Day sold for a record $150,000 on May 1, 2021, beating out The Beatles as the world's most expensive concert poster ever sold at auction.
Other historic US coins have fetched vast sums at auction too. A rare 1794 silver dollar believed to be one of the first – if not the first – made by the US mint sold for $10 million in 2013.
Coins worth a lot of money include the 1933 Double Eagle, 1794 Flowing Hair Dollar, 1787 Brasher Doubloon, 1861 Paquet Liberty Head Double Eagle and 1913 Liberty Head Nickel. First Edition Books
Texas Centennial half dollar Eagle sitting on a branch in front of the Lone Star, the symbol of Texas Victory spreading her wings over the Alamo with Sam Houston on her left, Stephen F. Austin on her right, and the Six Flags of Texas flying above her head 90% Ag, 10% Cu Uncirculated: 10,008 (P) 10,007 D 10,008 S [18] 1936 50¢
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In 1933, in an attempt to end the 1930s general bank crisis, U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 6102, which provisions included: . Section 2. All persons are hereby required to deliver on or before May 1, 1933, to a Federal Reserve bank or a branch or agency thereof or to any member bank of the Federal Reserve System all gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates ...