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Will this sheet of one dollar bills set a record for any numismatic item?

MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,428 ✭✭✭✭✭
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It's being sold at auction next week. Estimate $8-12 million. Yes, really.


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  • tjkilliantjkillian Posts: 5,578 ✭✭✭
    Your picture is not showing up. Perhaps you have a typo?
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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,901 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The folks on the Currency Forum may be better qualified to answer your question.

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  • MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,428 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The folks on the Currency Forum may be better qualified to answer your question.

    I doubt it.
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  • DorkGirlDorkGirl Posts: 9,994 ✭✭✭


    << <i>The folks on the Currency Forum may be better qualified to answer your question.

    I doubt it. >>



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  • DennisHDennisH Posts: 14,011 ✭✭✭✭✭
    What is the significance of this sheet and/or the bills, other than being as big as a blanket for a bed?
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  • blu62vetteblu62vette Posts: 11,951 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That is one large sheet

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    Wife: I am going shopping and have your sheet cleaned up before I return!!!
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  • rld14rld14 Posts: 2,390 ✭✭✭
    Andy,

    I know very little about currency, but what makes a sheet of $1 bills so valuable?
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  • sinin1sinin1 Posts: 7,500 ✭
    Is that a Boggs piece of art?
  • goose3goose3 Posts: 11,471 ✭✭✭
    I can't make out what they are.

    Black Eagles?
  • LindeDadLindeDad Posts: 18,766 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Have to ask what is going on with it? As it appers that it is not a uncut sheet of bill rather a group of bills in a special holder to my old eyes.
    Is it like the first one of every series or something?
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  • droopyddroopyd Posts: 5,381 ✭✭✭
    It's Andy Warhol's "200 One Dollar Bills" from 1962.

    Significant because this is among his first works to employ the technique of silkscreening.
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  • ColonialCoinUnionColonialCoinUnion Posts: 10,087 ✭✭✭
    I'm going to bid $8 mil, but if I win I'm going to hit the auction house up for a $50,000 discount or else back it goes.
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  • derrybderryb Posts: 37,704 ✭✭✭✭✭
    doesn't appear to be a single sheet. Bills don't line up. Looks like a number of sheets put together. see what the guys on the stamp forum think.

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  • 19Lyds19Lyds Posts: 26,492 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>doesn't appear to be a single sheet. Bills don't line up. Looks like a number of sheets put together. see what the guys on the stamp forum think. >>



    Its not real money in the numismatic sense, only in the "art" sense.
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  • RyGuyRyGuy Posts: 1,462 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I'm going to bid $8 mil, but if I win I'm going to hit the auction house up for a $50,000 discount or else back it goes. >>



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  • crazyhounddogcrazyhounddog Posts: 14,071 ✭✭✭✭✭


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    << <i>I'm going to bid $8 mil, but if I win I'm going to hit the auction house up for a $50,000 discount or else back it goes. >>



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  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,464 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I never seen a Warhol I would want to own. That makes one more. image
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    << <i>I never seen a Warhol I would want to own. That makes one more. image >>



    i was just going to type out a post basically saying the same thing
    but i am glad i can just reply to yours as not to seem pessimistic
    towards the artist without some company.

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  • DNADaveDNADave Posts: 7,309 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Reminds me of this thing made out of silver dollars.

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  • 291fifth291fifth Posts: 24,710 ✭✭✭✭✭
    If it is an early Warhol it is likely to go very high. I wouldn't be surprised if it goes above the high estimate.

    (Andy has now been dead for 22 years.)
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  • MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,428 ✭✭✭✭✭
    (Andy has now been dead for 22 years.)

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  • ColonialCoinUnionColonialCoinUnion Posts: 10,087 ✭✭✭


    << <i>(Andy has now been dead for 22 years.)

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    Ha!
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  • GemineyeGemineye Posts: 5,374 ✭


    << <i>

    << <i>(Andy has now been dead for 22 years.)

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    Ha! >>


    I guess he was never a member of the CU forum...and never posted on the OF forum neither....image.....
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  • TomBTomB Posts: 22,097 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I'm going to bid $8 mil, but if I win I'm going to hit the auction house up for a $50,000 discount or else back it goes. >>


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  • ColonialCoinUnionColonialCoinUnion Posts: 10,087 ✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>I'm going to bid $8 mil, but if I win I'm going to hit the auction house up for a $50,000 discount or else back it goes. >>


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    Note: I am not bluffing, so this is OK. image
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  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>The folks on the Currency Forum may be better qualified to answer your question.

    I doubt it. >>



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  • firstmintfirstmint Posts: 1,171 ✭
    I'd rather have the Warhol collection nude picture of Jackie O. for a lot less.
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  • ColonialCoinUnionColonialCoinUnion Posts: 10,087 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I'd rather have the Warhol collection nude picture of Jackie O. for a lot less. >>



    Has that ever been seen? (note I am not proposing someone post it here).

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  • coindeucecoindeuce Posts: 13,496 ✭✭✭✭✭
    How is a painting in any medium numismatic? C'mon Andy, admit the spoof is up.

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  • RedneckHBRedneckHB Posts: 19,711 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'm going to bid $8 mil, but if I win I'm going to hit the auction house up for a $50,000 discount or else back it goes

    I never seen a Warhol I would want to own. That makes one more.


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  • rainbowcoinsrainbowcoins Posts: 193


    WOW! never seen anything like that... I say it's over priced!
  • droopyddroopyd Posts: 5,381 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I'd rather have the Warhol collection nude picture of Jackie O. for a lot less. >>



    Just get a copy of the Hustler it was originally published in. Of course, it won't be autographed.

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  • sinin1sinin1 Posts: 7,500 ✭
    I saw this on CNBC selling soon?

    they said estimates are $8 million to $12 million
  • WalmannWalmann Posts: 2,806 ✭
    The first piece of art that was truly promoted and billed for sale.
  • HawgstickHawgstick Posts: 240 ✭✭
    If you cross your eyes and stare at it its actually a picture of Marilyn Monroe.
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  • kryptonitecomicskryptonitecomics Posts: 9,185 ✭


    << <i>I can't make out what they are.

    Black Eagles? >>




    Looks like it to me......now that would be a cool uncut sheet though I don't think it would be worth as much as this painting image
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  • RunnersDadRunnersDad Posts: 1,080 ✭✭✭
    Great investment potential. I don't think original Warhol's are even close to their price ceiling. His art is very popular, and will continue to grow in popularity in the coming years. Although, I agree with most of you in that this is not my favorite Warhol.
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  • tbarrecatbarreca Posts: 299 ✭
    I wouldn't mind owning a Warhol, just not at the prices art collectors think they're worth.
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  • seanqseanq Posts: 8,735 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>

    << <i>I'm going to bid $8 mil, but if I win I'm going to hit the auction house up for a $50,000 discount or else back it goes. >>


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    Note: I am not bluffing, so this is OK. image >>




    POTD. Too funny. image


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  • MeltdownMeltdown Posts: 9,004 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Reminds me of this thing made out of silver dollars.

    image >>



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  • stevendanielsstevendaniels Posts: 378
    I am sure it will do well, but 12 million? I would say not, but ifit does, I will eat my words!
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  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,464 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'd rather own a Andrew Wyeth. More upside given his death this year.
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  • droopyddroopyd Posts: 5,381 ✭✭✭
    Warhol Fetches $43.7 Million at Auction

    It was the sale of the season. When a seminal Warhol — one of the artist’s first silk-screen paintings — came on the block at Sotheby’s auction of contemporary art on Wednesday night, the auctioneer, Tobias Meyer, opened bidding at $6 million and was stunned when a bidder instantly doubled it.

    The price rose at breakneck speed as five collectors vied for the classic image, “200 One Dollar Bills.” It ended up selling for $43.7 million (including fees to Sotheby’s), more than three times its high estimate of $12 million.

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  • fcfc Posts: 12,793 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Warhol Fetches $43.7 Million at Auction

    It was the sale of the season. When a seminal Warhol — one of the artist’s first silk-screen paintings — came on the block at Sotheby’s auction of contemporary art on Wednesday night, the auctioneer, Tobias Meyer, opened bidding at $6 million and was stunned when a bidder instantly doubled it.

    The price rose at breakneck speed as five collectors vied for the classic image, “200 One Dollar Bills.” It ended up selling for $43.7 million (including fees to Sotheby’s), more than three times its high estimate of $12 million.

    New York Times >>



    i would guess a private collector just had to have it. i doubt a museum
    would go that buck wild for it. pun intended.
  • raysrays Posts: 2,424 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Warhol's paintings bring prices that seem astounding now only because they were so cheap before.

    There is no other artist more important from the 20th century.

    Warhol's Mao paintings are brilliant.

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  • fcfc Posts: 12,793 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Warhol's paintings bring prices that seem astounding now only because they were so cheap before.

    There is no other artist more important from the 20th century.

    Warhol's Mao paintings are brilliant.

    image >>



    so picasso with his cubism and blue and rose period is out ranked
    by warhol for the most important 20th century artist?

    warhol just strikes me as a gfx artist on drugs. image
  • DuPapaDuPapa Posts: 495 ✭✭
    WOW!!! Pop artist’s ‘200 One Dollar Bills’ sells for $43.8 million to anonymous buyer.



    << <i>It's being sold at auction next week. Estimate $8-12 million. Yes, really.


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  • JCMhoustonJCMhouston Posts: 5,306 ✭✭✭
    It made $43 mill, that's not bad for modern.
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  • 291fifth291fifth Posts: 24,710 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'm not surprised at the result.

    Rare - Early - Pristine condition - By an "in demand" artist.
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  • droopyddroopyd Posts: 5,381 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I'm not surprised at the result.

    Rare - Early - Pristine condition - By an "in demand" artist. >>



    Not only that, it is considered a "seminal" work in that it was one of the first for which Warhol used a particular technique (silkscreening).
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