Auction

Miss America 1958, Marilyn Van Derbur has put her winning crown for auction at Heritage Auctions to raise money for teachers in Colorado. Reportedly, the bidding of the crown starts at $20,000. Additionally, she's also auctioning a 'crown motif' bracelet. Notably, this is the first time that Miss America is auctioning her crown. ''It's one of my most prized possessions," said Van Derbur.

At an auction on September 29, hundreds of gold coins discovered in walls of an isolated French chateau brought more than one million euros ($1.2 million). When stonemasons were renovating a house in Quimper in western Brittany, they unearthed 239 gold coins made before the French Revolution. The family retained four coins as souvenirs and auctioned the rest. For an extraordinarily rare double Louis d'Or, bidding started at 8,000 euros.

After a six-day auction on eBay, a single piece of McDonald's BTS meal chicken nugget was sold for $99,997. The chicken nugget, which was posted up for auction on May 28, was said to have an uncanny resemblance to an 'Among Us' game character. Interestingly, the bid started at just $0.99 after which it shot up. This is said to be one of the biggest bid related to BTS.

Father of calculus and gravity's discoverer Issac Newton's handwritten notes, which are revisions to his masterwork "Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy", will be up for auction in London on July 8. As per auction company Christie's, Newton's work could fetch as much as $1.3 million. The book, published in 1687, contain laws of gravitation and motion, and its first edition was auctioned for $3.7 million in 2016. 

A 35-year-old unopened copy of Nintendo's Super Mario Bros clocked a price tag of whopping $6,60,000 in a recently held auction in Dallas by Heritage Auctions. Interestingly, it was bought as a Christmas gift in 1986, the owner left it in a drawer and forgot about it. The game was recovered from an unattended drawer until 2021. The same version of the game was sold at $ 114,000 last year.