Auction

MLB star Shohei Ohtani’s fiftieth home run ball of the season has been auctioned off for a record-breaking amount.

The tallest building in Fort Worth, Texas, has been sold at a foreclosure auction for less than nine percent of its purchase price from just three years ago, according to the Dallas Business Journal.

Hundreds of rare vintage baseball cards found tucked inside a California home’s closet have now been acquired by auctioneers. 

Some $2 bills might be pretty valuable, and collectors would love to get their hands on them, NJ.com reported on Monday.

An original, factory-sealed 4GB iPhone 1 recently sold at auction for a staggering $190,372.80. The phone sold for $499 when released in 2007.

A purse called “Microscopic Handbag” that is the size of a crumb was auctioned Wednesday for more than $63,000.

A set of Rocky VHS tapes was reportedly auctioned for more than $50,000 amid growth in the collectibles market.

A buyer recently paid over $200,000 for a pair of Steve Jobs’ worn-out Birkenstocks that he wore in the 1970s and 1980s.

A lucky British couple that found 264 gold coins under their kitchen floor has recently sold the trove for over £754,000 ($853,000 USD) through an auction.

A family in Aukland, New Zealand, recently discovered the remains of two children aged 5 and 10 years old inside suitcases they purchased unseen at an auction for an unclaimed storage locker, Reuters reported on Friday, noting that New Zealand authorities have launched a criminal investigation into the children’s deaths as they suspect they were murdered.

A sealed 1986 VHS tape of Back to the Future fetched $75,000 at a recent auction as VHS surges in popularity among collectors.

Lunar dust gathered by Neil Armstrong during the Apollo 11 mission is scheduled for auction and is the only specimen allowed to be sold.

An auctioneer sold a treasured copy of the initial Marvel comic book — Marvel Comic No. 1 — for over $2.4 million last week. 

One of 11 surviving copies of the Constitution is set to be put up for auction on November 23 and estimates suggest that the historic document could sell for upwards of 15 million dollars.

In April, Skinner Auctioneers said it would auction “the oldest currently known whiskey bottle,” Food & Wine magazine reported Wednesday.

Atlantic City is auctioning off the chance to virtually push a button that will start the implosion of the former Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino.

Drag queens recently raised funds for Planned Parenthood with a “slave-style auction” of Christian pastors and activists.

An Ohio 7th grader with a big heart is being hailed a hero for his recent act of charity during a county fair.

Purchased for less than $10 in 1964, the 3 1/2-inch “Lewis Chessman” was auctioned off at Sotheby’s in London for $924,000.

Officials at a Greek Orthodox church in Chicago are hailing a last-minute anonymous donation as a “Christmas miracle” after the donation kept the property from going into foreclosure.

A Banksy print being sold at auction for $1.4 million self-destructed before auction-goers eyes Friday just after it sold.

A painting that hung for years in a New Jersey family’s dining room and drew scorn from those at the dinner table turned out to be a Rembrandt that sold for millions of dollars at an auction.

Manhattan state Supreme Court Judge Gerald Leibovitz issued an order this week halting the auction of some of pop star Madonna’s most personal possessions, inducing a pair of previously worn underwear, a love letter from her ex-boyfriend and late rapper Tupac Shakur, and a hairbrush.

Former FBI Director James Comey is meeting with publishers to pitch a book he is writing about his public service career that will include a section about his relationship with President Trump while he served as FBI director.

A 59.6 carat pink diamond smashed the world record for the priciest diamond ever sold.

WASHINGTON (AFP) – Adolf Hitler’s personal telephone, which the Fuehrer used to dictate many of his deadly World War II commands, sold at auction on Sunday for $243,000, the US house selling it announced.

Two bottles of an Israeli wine that is banned in some parts of the world due to the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement against the Jewish State, sold for a record $12,000 each during an auction in Miami on Tuesday.

Given that the Donald Trump victory already made Yahoo less attractive for Verizon, the latest billion-account-hack at Yahoo could let Verizon dump their buy-out and still collect a $145 million break-up fee.

A 20-year-old woman from Washington state is auctioning off her virginity in order to raise funds to rebuild her family’s home destroyed by a fire.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s childhood home in Queens, New York goes on the auction block in October, and Inside Edition took a tour of the home this week for a segment on the program.

The iconic black Fiat 500 used by Pope Francis during much of his week-long United States visit last September has pulled in $300,000 at auction, selling for more than 12 times the car’s base price of $24,695. The Fiat was

Barrington High School has apologized after students took part in a mock slave auction over the weekend.