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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 was sold. The inflation adjustment may change as recent inflation rates are often revised.
Hunter's nephew who, aged 12, found the stamp among his uncle's personal letters in Georgetown, Guiana Neil Ross McKinnon: 1873–1878 None United Kingdom A local collector, he at first declined to buy it, feeling it was a bad specimen; while he owned the stamp, British Guiana started to garner attention from the philatelic world [6] Thomas Ridpath
This is a list of printed books, manuscripts, letters, music scores, comic books, maps and other documents which have sold for more than US$1 million. The dates of composition of the books range from the 7th-century Quran leaf palimpsest and the early 8th-century St Cuthbert Gospel , to a 21st-century autograph manuscript of J. K. Rowling 's ...
An original “Post Office” Mauritius took the title of the world’s most valuable stamp after selling for $9.6 million in 2021. 1794 Flowing Hair Silver Dollar $12 million
As previously reported by GOBankingRates, the most valuable bill in the world might be an 1890 U.S. Grand Watermelon $1,000 treasury note valued at $3.3 million.
In February 2007, the world's rarest baseball card sold at auction for $2.3 million. If you think that's totally wild, consider the world's rarest bible, which could net you $25 to $35 million.
The £100 million note (nicknamed "Titan" simply because of its titanic value) backs the value of common circulating notes (£1, £5, £10, £20, £50, and £100 notes) issued by the six commercial banks in Scotland (Bank of Scotland, Royal Bank of Scotland, Clydesdale Bank) and Northern Ireland (Bank of Ireland, Danske Bank and Ulster Bank).
The Amber Room was constructed in the Catherine Palace in the 18th century in Tsarskoe Selo, near St. Petersburg. Tsarskoe Selo was captured by Germany in 1941 during World War II, and the room's ...