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£10 banknote with King Charles’s face on it sells for £17,000 at auction
Some of the earliest banknotes to feature the face of King Charles have been auctioned off for a whopping £914,127.
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Three-bed house with red carpet on sale for just £9,000 - but there's a catch
The two-storey terraced pad looks unassuming from the outside, with a neat front garden, and large windows. But inside the Birmingham home, it's a slightly different story.
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Last piece of wreckage from plane flown by British aviator sells for £3,600
A fragment of wreckage from the last plane flown by legendary female British aviator Amy Johnson has sold for £3,600 at auction after being discovered 83 years on
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Rare antique Chinese Emperor's robe found in box could fetch huge amount
The 19th Century garment was found boxed up in the back of a drawer at a house in Buckinghamshire and is expected to fetch up to £50,000 at auction.
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Creepy 18th century doll wearing petticoat made from cutting about murder sells
An 18th century doll wearing a petticoat made from a newspaper article about the brutal murder of a maid has sold for £27,500 - smashing its estimate of £8,000 to £12,000
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House hits the market for bargain price of £30,000 – but there's a major catch
The two-bedroom terraced home in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, is being sold at auction, but comes with quite a few issues for its apparent bargain £30,000 price tag
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Rare Australian 15p coin to fetch thousands after being found in Oxfam donation
The early 19th century 15 pence piece - known as a 'Dump' - was spotted by Oxfam volunteer and former banker John Turner as he went through a bag of donated coins
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Friends scripts found in bin 25 years ago and forgotten about sell for £22,000
Scripts from the iconic Friends two-part episode, 'The One With Ross's Wedding', were found in a bin 25 years ago and subsequently forgotten about. On Friday they sold for £22,000
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'I bought colourful vase at Goodwill for £3.15 - it sold at auction for £85,000'
Searching second-hand stores for bargains is a pastime for many people, but one lady found she'd come across an Antiques Roadshow-level find that would change her life
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Eye-watering sum derelict bungalows sold for after going to auction at 50p
The derelict homes and land went from the price of a small bar of chocolate to an unexpected amount due to a bidding war erupting between eager bargain hunters
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'World's oldest whisky' found in Scottish castle set to fetch £13k a bottle
Extremely rare bottles of ancient whisky once drunk by royalty are being sold at auction after being discovered in the dark cellar of a historic Scottish castle
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Man's rare Panini album up for sale - and could fetch £1,800 at auction
Andrew Knott received his Mexico 70 album as a 12th birthday present and now hopes to get at least £1,800 when it goes under the hammer with Gildings Auctioneers
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World's most expensive bottle of whiskey smashes records as it's sold at auction
The 60-year-old bottle of single malt has sold for an eye-watering amount at Sotheby’s because there were only 40 bottles of the 1926 whisky produced almost 40 years ago
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Ancient Qing Dynasty cup found gathering dust in garage set to sell for £5,000
A rare Chinese treasure dating back to the late 17th or early 18th century is estimated to fetch between £3,000- £5,000 when it goes under the hammer on November 30
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Noel Gallagher's 'holy grail' Oasis lyric notebook could make £50,000 at auction
An A4 notepad containing the handwritten lyrics of some of the smash hit band Oasis' greatest songs - including an early version of Champagne Supernova will soon go up for auction
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Ultra rare bottle of 60-year-old liqueur set to fetch £4,000 after it was found in attic
The ultra-rare bottle of French liqueur bought by a father to celebrate his son's birth almost 60 years ago is now expected to fetch thousands at auction after being found in a loft gathering dust.
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Retired man's magic mushroom dream shattered as gifted '$10m' painting flops
The artist behind the painting died in 2021 and his works have brought in millions of pounds before one mysterious painting ended up in the hands of a retired dog walker
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First astronomy book written in English sells at auction for eye-watering sum
The historical book - published before famous Italian astronomer Galileo was even born - went under the hammer at Hansons Auctioneers today
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UK's new 'wonkiest pub' where 'pool balls roll upward' fails to sell at auction
The Tilted Barrel pub, which was named Britain's wonkiest pub after a devastating fire at the Crooked House in summer, was put up for sale but failed to sell at auction
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Garage on Downing Street with guide price of just £1 sells for eye-watering sum
A garage on a road that shares the name with one of the most popular streets in Britain has been sold at auction for £14,250 after attracting 60 bids from eight different people
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Couple fuming after taking £129 from dealer for African mask he sold for £3.6m
The rare mask was one of fewer than a dozen carried in museums around the world. The dealer then sold the mask at an auction in Montpellier a few months it was sold to him buy the elderly French couple
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Rare coin from 400 years ago sells for eye-watering £3,000 at auction
The coin went to auction on October 3 in Mayfair and originally it was expected to sell at around £2,000 - however, it went for much more than anticipated at £3,000
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'Extremely rare' £5 note up for sale could fetch £16,000 at auction
The £5 banknote, dated July 12, 1900, was first issued at the Bank of England’s Leeds branch and is one of a few that still exist, and could exceed its estimated value of £12,000 to £16,000
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Constable painting lost for 44yrs turns up in terraced house and sells for £250k
The 1814 oil sketch, last recorded in 1979, depicts Willy Lott’s Cottage in Flatford, Suffolk and was rediscovered hanging in a dark corner of a dining room in Guernsey
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£30,000 sculpture stolen in heist finally rediscovered 16 years later at auction
The prized Wally Bird piece was taken from Pitzhanger Manor House in Ealing in 2007 but was recently spotted in a catalogue by a researcher looking into stolen art
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