What's going on at Sotheby's

The Oxford scientist doubted that the most expensive painting in the history of auctions - Salvator Mundi - was created by Leonardo da Vinci. A few months after the historic auction of the painting Salvator Mundi sold for a record $450,000,000 the leading Oxford art historian Matthew Landrus questioned if the painting really was created by Leonardo da Vinci. He believes that most of the work was done by an assistant of da Vinci - the artist Bernardino Luini. His paintings are usually auctioned for less than a million pounds...

A £2 coin with a defect is auctioned on eBay for £4,000. Stranger things On eBay again - a "rare" coin with a face value of £2 is auctioned for crazy £4,000. This is 2,000 times its face value. At first glance the coin looks quite normal, but on closer examination the defect is noticeable. Nothing special - between the inner silver rim and the outer gold there is a small gap. However, for crazy collectors this is enough to throw out a lot of money...

Rare watches that contains a drop of the world's oldest rum sold for almost £15,000 at auction. 7 years ago in the Harewood House’s ancient cellar near Leeds were found untouched bottles of rum. For hundreds of years they were kept here far from people. Rum is recognized as the oldest on the planet. Wealth Solutions acquired this rum and came up with a brilliant move — to sell a drink in tens of times more expensive than the original cost. The solution was the project Rum Watch. It was launched in cooperation with the watch brand Speake-Marin...

The Han Solo's jacket from the classic "Star Wars" can collect at auction $1,300,000. In June Star Wars blaster was auctioned off for $550,000. Using this blaster Han shot first. The buyer of the wooden props now can collect complete Han Solo set. To the auction is going the jacket which Harrison Ford wore as Han in "The Empire Strikes Back." Experts believe that loyal (crazy) fans can pay as much as $1,300,000 for this lot. The famous jacket will be one of more than...

Rare nickel owned by Louis Elias will be auctioned in Philadelphia, where it can be sold for $3,000,000 - $5,000,000. This month Philadelphia will host the World Money Fair organized by the American Numismatic Association. The fair will be held in Pennsylvania from August 14 to 18. The most important lot will be the nickel named after financier Louis Elias who bought the coin in 1948 and gathered one of the greatest coin collections in the US history. The price of the coin is expected to reach $5,000,000...