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• Last US Cents Sold At Auction For $16.76 Million Were Worth A Pretty Penny

  22-12-2025 23:09
  By Olivia Diaz
  NEW YORK CITY (AP) — To those who argue that the US penny had no value: some coin collectors beg to differ.
  In fact, they doled out millions for the final pennies circulated in the US before the government ended the cent’s production back in November.
  The US Mint sold 232 three-cent sets for a whopping sum of $16.76 million at an auction last Thursday, December 11, hosted by Stack’s Bowers Galleries.
  The 232nd set — containing the last three pennies ever ma
  
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• Rococo Steinway Piano Was Music To Roland Bidders’ Ears

  22-12-2025 22:53
  GLEN COVE, N.Y. — Of the 651 lots offered at Roland NY’s December 2025 Holiday Estates Sale conducted on the 13th, a Steinway & Sons Dutch Rococo parquetry inlaid and carved piano with bench took the highest price at $19,500, including premium. Made circa 1948, the piano was a Model O and, despite some small condition issues, sold well above its $10/15,000 estimate. Additional highlights from this sale will be featured in an upcoming issue.
  
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• Life Ring, Lifeboat Piece From Edmund Fitzgerald Shipwreck Sell At Auction For $150,000

  22-12-2025 22:47
  DETROIT (AP) — A life ring and a piece of a lifeboat from the Edmund Fitzgerald were sold at auction Friday, December 19, for $150,000, a month after the 50th anniversary of the famous ship’s sinking in Lake Superior with 29 men aboard.
  The relics were discovered by a carpenter in 1975 along the shore in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. There were no survivors when the ore carrier perished in a tremendous storm and plunged 535 feet (163 meters) to the lake bottom.
  “I’m d
  
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• Grigoriev Dominates Heritage’s Superlative Russian Objects Sales

  22-12-2025 22:20
  DALLAS — Russia was the center of the world at Heritage Auctions on December 16 and 17, with 165 lots from the collection of A La Vieille Russie, the landmark New York City-based Russian antiques firm proving to be just the warm up for nearly 200 lots of Imperial Fabergé & Russian Works of Art on the second day. With nearly 84 percent of all lots offered lots gaveling down successfully, the sale totaled just over $4 million. Three paintings by Boris Grigoriev (Russian, 1886-1939
  
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• Haring Sculpture Dances To $80K At Winter Associates

  22-12-2025 22:07
  PLAINVILLE, CONN. — December 15 saw 288 lots cross the block in Winter Associates’ Chihuly & Other Important Glass auction. Dancing its way to top-lot status at $80,640 with premium, more than eight times its $5/10,000 estimate, was “Dancing Red Dog,” a white metal Keith Haring (American, 1958-1990) sculpture. The work was made in the 1990s by Upscale Welding and has provenance to the owner of the business, Bob Giza, who worked with artist Andre Emmerich to create Har
  
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• ‘Exceptional’ Auction Brings Exceptional Results For WAG

  22-12-2025 21:54
  EAST MEADOW, N.Y. — On December 3, World Auction Gallery conducted their Exceptional Fine Art & Antiques Auction. With just more than 350 lots of art and antiques, including a substantial collection of French art nouveau glass vases, high quality paintings, a large collection of rare silver items, bronzes, assorted antiques from various countries and more, the auction was packed with items that attracted all types of bidders — from established collectors to first-time auction buy
  
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• Yes, Virginia, This Letter Is Worth a Small Fortune

  22-12-2025 21:45 via antiquetrader.com
  An Antiques Roadshow guest’s Santa Claus letter inspired a famous editorial. Image courtesy: PBS/Holiday magic met American history on a recent episode of Antiques Roadshow, when a guest presented an unassuming handwritten letter that turned out to be one of the most beloved documents in Christmas lore.The letter was written in 1897 by eight-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon, who asked a simple but profound question: Is there a Santa Claus? Addressed to the editors of the New York Sun, the
  
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• Robert Mnuchin, NYC Art Dealer, 92

  22-12-2025 21:04
  BRIDGEWATER, CONN. — Investment banker turned Modern and Postwar art dealer Robert Mnuchin died Friday, December 19; his death was confirmed by Michael McGinnis, a partner at Mnuchin Gallery in New York City.
  Mnuchin was a major force at the top tier of the art market, exhibiting works by Willem de Kooning, Andy Warhol, Mark Rothko and Franz Kline. He was also known as an advisor to billionaires like Steve A. Cohen and Mitchell Rales.
  Born in 1933 in Manhattan, Mnuchin grew up in a Jewish
  
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• Antique prov’l board urges timely release of financial aid - Philippine News Agency

  22-12-2025 10:31 via news.google.com
  Antique prov’l board urges timely release of financial aid  Philippine News Agency
  
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• Antique PDRRMO urges public commuters to observe road safety - Philippine News Agency

  22-12-2025 10:02 via news.google.com
  Antique PDRRMO urges public commuters to observe road safety  Philippine News Agency
  
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