A rare 1913 U.S. coin once owned by an Egyptian king and later featured in a famous U.S. TV detective series was sold for more than $3.7 million (2.3 million pounds) in a public auction in Florida, the auctioneers said on Friday.
The so-called Liberty Head nickel, one of only five known of that specific date and design, was sold "in spirited bidding" to a private East Coast coin collector in Orlando late on Thursday, said Greg Rohan, president of Dallas, Texas-based Heritage Auctions. The buyer wished to remain anonymous.
The $3,737,500 price for the five-cent coin included a 15 percent buyer's premium.
"It is probably the most famous United States rare coin," Rohan said in a statement.
Once part of the coin collection owned by Egypt's King Farouk, who was deposed in 1952, the Liberty nickel changed hands several times and featured as part of the plot in a 1973 episode of the well-known CBS TV series "Hawaii Five-O."
The value of the rare coin, which was made at the Philadelphia Mint with the Miss Liberty design, crossed the million dollar mark in 2003.
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Friday, January 8, 2010
$AU140 million from a lottery ticket that was printed by mistake.
A Kentucky man has won $AU140 million from a lottery ticket that was printed by mistake.
Lottery officials said Rob Anderson and his wife were winners of the largest jackpot in the state's history.
What would you do with the money? Leave your comments below.
They've been buying tickets together for 12 years.
"We didn't hit it, that's not us," Rob Anderson said he told his wife after showing her the winning ticket the morning after the Dec. 26 drawing. "Something's not right!"
But they nearly didn't win the cash, as Mr Anderson revealed the winning ticket was a misprint that he decided to keep while buying stocking stuffers at a gas station. He wanted to buy $1 lottery tickets for three people, but the clerk goofed.
"The clerk ran the $3 Quick Pick but he put it all on one ticket, and I was like, doggone it, I needed three separate tickets," Anderson said.
The clerk asked him if he wanted to keep the ticket, which had three sets of random numbers.
"Yeah, I got a couple extra dollars," Anderson said, and he bought three more tickets to give as gifts.
When he arrived at home, he tossed the ticket on his dresser and didn't think about it until the Sunday morning after the drawing. When he remembered it, he checked the Powerball numbers and they matched one of the sets of numbers on the botched ticket.
Mr Anderson said he and his wife are grounded people.
"My wife taught me well, so to speak, to hang on to that dollar and see how far it gets you," he said. "We'll still clip coupons and still look for the clearance rack."
The couple said they haven't decided if they'll return to work.
Lottery officials said Rob Anderson and his wife were winners of the largest jackpot in the state's history.
What would you do with the money? Leave your comments below.
They've been buying tickets together for 12 years.
"We didn't hit it, that's not us," Rob Anderson said he told his wife after showing her the winning ticket the morning after the Dec. 26 drawing. "Something's not right!"
But they nearly didn't win the cash, as Mr Anderson revealed the winning ticket was a misprint that he decided to keep while buying stocking stuffers at a gas station. He wanted to buy $1 lottery tickets for three people, but the clerk goofed.
"The clerk ran the $3 Quick Pick but he put it all on one ticket, and I was like, doggone it, I needed three separate tickets," Anderson said.
The clerk asked him if he wanted to keep the ticket, which had three sets of random numbers.
"Yeah, I got a couple extra dollars," Anderson said, and he bought three more tickets to give as gifts.
When he arrived at home, he tossed the ticket on his dresser and didn't think about it until the Sunday morning after the drawing. When he remembered it, he checked the Powerball numbers and they matched one of the sets of numbers on the botched ticket.
Mr Anderson said he and his wife are grounded people.
"My wife taught me well, so to speak, to hang on to that dollar and see how far it gets you," he said. "We'll still clip coupons and still look for the clearance rack."
The couple said they haven't decided if they'll return to work.
Thursday, January 7, 2010
GoodBye Kiss Puts International Airport on High Alert
A last-minute kiss goodbye was responsible for a massive security scare at Newark's airport in New Jersey, a newspaper reported on Thursday.
Newark International went on high alert on Sunday, with huge delays for passengers, after an unidentified man was spotted in the "sterile" zone. He was not caught or even identified.
The Star-Ledger daily quoted security officials saying that videotape reveals the feared intruder was no more than a man wanting a last kiss from a departing woman.
He simply passed under a rope barrier and with the woman went "hand in hand toward the boarding area", the newspaper quotes the security officials and US Senator Frank Lautenberg as saying.
The embarrassing revelation follows the brief shutdown of Bakersfield airport in California on Tuesday when a passenger tried to bring five bottles on to the plane.
Explosives tests initially came back positive, police said, but in the end the substance turned out to be honey.
US airports are jittery following a Christmas Day incident in which a Nigerian man allegedly tried to set off an explosive device on a plane bound for Detroit.
President Barack Obama has called that a major national security breach.
Newark International went on high alert on Sunday, with huge delays for passengers, after an unidentified man was spotted in the "sterile" zone. He was not caught or even identified.
The Star-Ledger daily quoted security officials saying that videotape reveals the feared intruder was no more than a man wanting a last kiss from a departing woman.
He simply passed under a rope barrier and with the woman went "hand in hand toward the boarding area", the newspaper quotes the security officials and US Senator Frank Lautenberg as saying.
The embarrassing revelation follows the brief shutdown of Bakersfield airport in California on Tuesday when a passenger tried to bring five bottles on to the plane.
Explosives tests initially came back positive, police said, but in the end the substance turned out to be honey.
US airports are jittery following a Christmas Day incident in which a Nigerian man allegedly tried to set off an explosive device on a plane bound for Detroit.
President Barack Obama has called that a major national security breach.
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
PickPockets on Aeroplane!!!!!!!!!!!
French police are investigating whether a pickpocket stole thousands of euros from passengers as they slept on an Air France flight from Tokyo to Paris.
"There is an investigation under way," a spokesman for the border police at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris said when asked to confirm a report on the website of the Le Figaro.
The paper said around 4,000 euros ($5,744) appeared to have been stolen from five business class passengers as they slept on the overnight flight.
"On this flight, which takes off from Tokyo Narita at 10 p.m., passengers often sleep deeply before waking up shortly before arriving in Paris at around 4 a.m.," Le Figaro quoted one of the alleged victims as saying.
A woman alerted the cabin crew when she woke to find a large sum missing, the passenger said.
"This lady called staff to say that all the cash in her handbag had been stolen. Counting Swiss francs, euros and yen, there was apparently about 3,000 euros," the passenger said.
A spokeswoman for Air France said the pilot had alerted police who were waiting when the flight touched down.
"I would say that it is really extremely rare to have several passengers at once reporting thefts on board," she said.
She said that while the company was responsible for baggage carried in the hold, passengers had responsibility for possessions they had with them in the cabin.
"There is an investigation under way," a spokesman for the border police at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris said when asked to confirm a report on the website of the Le Figaro.
The paper said around 4,000 euros ($5,744) appeared to have been stolen from five business class passengers as they slept on the overnight flight.
"On this flight, which takes off from Tokyo Narita at 10 p.m., passengers often sleep deeply before waking up shortly before arriving in Paris at around 4 a.m.," Le Figaro quoted one of the alleged victims as saying.
A woman alerted the cabin crew when she woke to find a large sum missing, the passenger said.
"This lady called staff to say that all the cash in her handbag had been stolen. Counting Swiss francs, euros and yen, there was apparently about 3,000 euros," the passenger said.
A spokeswoman for Air France said the pilot had alerted police who were waiting when the flight touched down.
"I would say that it is really extremely rare to have several passengers at once reporting thefts on board," she said.
She said that while the company was responsible for baggage carried in the hold, passengers had responsibility for possessions they had with them in the cabin.
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