Mickey Mantle BB Card, $5.2 million 1952 Topps #311 Mint British Guiana 1-Cent Magenta (issued 1856) $9.5 million 1849 Double Eagle Gold, $20 million Babe Ruth & HOF Baseball, $623,000 Ming China Porcelain, $36.2 million Miniatur Wunderland Model Railway Hamburg, Germany, $18 million

Most Valuable Dream of High School Final Exam— Essay: "What Is Value?" with examples. Mint Mickey Mantle baseball card just sold for $5.2 million. World's rariest stamp $9.5 million— British Guiana One-Cent Magenta. World's rariest coin $20 million— 1849 Double Eagle $20 Gold. Babe Ruth & 11 Hall-of-Famers baseball autographed sold for record $623,000. Ming China Porcelain of Fish Bowl sold for $36.2 million in Hong Kong. Most expensive model railway trains Miniatur Wunderland, $18 million. Most expensive painting $450.3 million— Leonardo's "Salvator Mundi". Most expensive sculpture $104.3 million— Giacometti's "The Walking Man". Apple Inc. valued at $2.213 trillion is richest company in the world. Indians sold Manhattan in 1623 to the Dutch's Peter Minuit for $24. With compound interest at 3% that $24 investment grew to $3.6 million. Now Manhattan's real estate is $2.8 trillion with Los Angeles second at $2.3 trillion. Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon.com is the wealthiest with $188.5 billion. The sage smiles at all these trinkets and says the most valuable is peace. — Peter Y. Chou     Mountain View, 5-2-2021

"Salvator Mundi" $450.3 million by Leonardo da Vinci (1510) "The Walking Man" $104.3 million by Alberto Giacometti (1961) Apple Inc. $2.213 trillion Cupertino, California Indians Sell Manhattan for $24 Scoop #147: April 1, 1623 Manhattan Real Estate $2.8 trillion