While there’s no shortage of amazing things in our world, the lengths people would go and the money they’d spend to own them never ceases to amaze. In this day and age, it’s easy to sell off your unwanted items and to put them out there for the world to bid on. Sometimes, the paydays from these auctions are enormous, and for a good reason. Here we’ll see many things, from super rare baseball cards to the biggest coin ever made! Here we’ll see the Most Expensive Things Ever Sold at Auction!
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6. Largest Gold Coin in the World!
A gigantic 100 kg (220.5 lbs) Canadian gold maple leaf coin was bought in an auction in Vienna by a Spanish precious metals company for £2.7 million. The coin was one of just five Canadian $1,000,000 Maple Leaf coins that were produced by the Royal Canadian Mint. AvW Invest, an Austrian investment group, ordered the auction after filing for insolvency and having its owner and chief executive arrested on breach of trust, suspicion of fraud, and other charges. The coin was launched in 2007 in an attempt at snagging the Guinness World Record for world’s largest coin and to show off the production facilities of the Royal Canadian Mint. It’s 99.999% pure.
5. A Whole Bunch of Meteorites
Rob Elliot, a former electronics engineer, built a collection of meteorites over a period of 13 years and finally decided to part ways with it in 2009. His collection was over 1,000 pieces strong, but he decided to sell only 170 of the space rocks. His interest started when he saw an ad in a magazine for a meteorite for $40, and ever since, he’s been scouring the globe for his own. They went on sale in Edinburgh at Lyon and Turnbull, and auctioneers put a $1.6 million price tag on the whole lot. He decided to sell the meteorites because although he has a great interest, he figured someone else could make better use of them. The entire bundle ended up selling for $1.4 million.
4. The Dentures of Winston Churchill
While a lot of people with speech impediments will go to great lengths to cover them up, Winston Churchill knew that his made him recognizable and himself. He had his dentures specially made to preserve that lisp so that he was instantly recognized during his wartime radio broadcasts. Derek Cudlipp, a young dental technician, designed and created Churchill’s dentures and kept a set in his family’s home until 2010. Churchill appreciated Cudlipp’s work so much that when he was drafted for the war, Churchill himself tore up the papers. He told Cudlipp that he’d be more critical to the war effort if he stayed at home and repaired the dentures, which needed fixing quite often. When he’d get angry, Churchill would flick them out and fling them across the room, so Cudlipp was kept reasonably busy. The set from Cudlipp’s home sold for £15,200 (USD 19,417).
3. Honus Wagner Baseball Card
Honus Wagner was a German-American baseball player who played 21 seasons at shortstop for the Pittsburgh Pirates in the late 1800s and early 1900s. He was one of the first five players ever to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame and is still considered one of the best baseball players of all time. So it makes sense that his baseball card would be pretty popular, right? Well, he made them even rarer when after the American Tobacco Company (ATC) put out his card among the cards of many other players. Wagner quickly made sure to get the production of his card stopped, whether because he wanted more compensation or because he didn’t want children to have to buy cigarettes to get his card, no one knows. Therefore, only between 50 and 200 of his cards were produced, compared to the “tens or hundreds of thousands” produced for other players. Most recently, in 2016, a T206 Wagner was auctioned by Goldin Auctions and ended up selling online for $3.12 million.
2. Lunch With Warren Buffet
So, every year for 19 years, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffett, has auctioned a lunch with himself, and every year he’s raised a lot of money doing so. He uses the auction as a way to raise money for Glide, which is an organization that fights poverty in San Francisco, California. Over the years, the auctions have raised more than $26 million, and in 2018, the winning bid was $3.3 million. But that’s not the most money anyone’s ever paid to have lunch with the octogenarian. In fact, in both 2012 and 2016, two different high bidders paid $3,456,789 to eat with Buffett. Both years both bidders paid that exact amount, whether by coincidence or on purpose. We’re guessing on purpose; we mean, 3456789… come on!
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Everything you own < Da Vinci’s scribble
They arnt in order
Go send to hell all person who illegally used her older sibling's insurance name to make a dental alligner at a 'Chicago University' South Korean male dentist's clinic as if that evil unlucky jinxed scumbag thought was the way to trick her way to appear anything similar to her older sister. What kind of unlucky jinxed insecure loser spreading jinxes envies her own sibling.🤮
Bruh i just saw a davinci painting sold for $400 million at auction
The Crown Jewels star of India
I bought a rare extremely good condition 1899 one dollar bill
Theres way more stuff thats worth more than those.
I've seen farm machinery bring more than 500k I don't get why there isnt anything like that on here
Funny how a 1 million gold coin can be sold for way more than its stated worth. lol
How’d it go from $500,000 to $50 million
2.12
FIFTY MILLION for a BOOK
Who would pay that? – Bill Gates- That's who….
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Yeah you missed the point of this.
Compmaturism is one of the
the most sought after direction on the Art market
This channel has 181k subs? GTFOH. Salvator Mundi sold for $450MM.
The most expensive thing I sold was a 25$ magic the gathering card😂
crap
Such a bad top 10 video. Dont know where to start. Is this made by a 12 year old ?
This video is the reason why stock videos are still made
Imagine paying 1,400,000 for some rocks
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Salvator Mundi $400.000.000
I got a Edward Drummond libbey crystal cut glass collection a piece from his father and the first edition book the and 1818 2018 globlets 200 year anniversary