Chapter Ninety-Nine: Hot!
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Sosby's first auction item was naturally the silver peacock dug up by Tang Feng, which was also the first piece of natural silver dug up by Tang Feng.
Although the price of natural silver cannot be compared with natural gold, the shape of this silver peacock is too beautiful, if it were not for Sosby to issue relevant certificates to prove that this is a piece of naturally formed natural silver, I am afraid that no one would believe that such a beautiful and realistic shape is actually naturally formed.
If it is pure silver, the price of more than 31 kilograms of pure silver is about 16,000 US dollars, but if it is exchanged for natural silver, the price of such heavy natural silver must be at least 100,000 US dollars. Of course, there is almost no natural silver with such a realistic shape as this silver peacock found in the world, so Sotheby directly offered a reserve price of 200,000 US dollars.
If you really calculate it, this reserve price is still quite low, because according to Sam's father's estimate, the final auction price of this silver peacock will definitely exceed one million dollars, even if it is auctioned for a natural gold price similar to the shape of the crucifix, it is not necessarily an uncommon thing.
Sure enough, when all the tycoons present saw this lifelike silver peacock, their faces changed color one by one.
Natural silver and natural gold are masterpieces of nature, and each piece is a rare and undesirable existence, so this natural mineral deposit is very popular in Europe, the United States and the emerging Chinese market. These people present are all real tycoons, but if they say that they have a piece of natural gold or natural silver, it is not necessarily.
After all, natural silver and natural gold are too rare, especially natural gold, and these tycoons present are probably not many who own a piece of natural gold! Otherwise, Sosby said that there would be more than 100 pieces of natural silver and 10 pieces of natural gold for auction in this auction, and there would not be so many tycoons who came from thousands of miles to participate in the auction.
Obviously, the number of people who came from the scene was enough to show the status of these natural silver and natural gold in the minds of these tycoons.
Sure enough, when Dunst said the reserve price, more than a dozen signs were erected on the scene, and the price rose directly from $200,000 to $560,000.
"Very good, this Mr. 133 quoted 560,000 US dollars, and there is no higher price than this gentleman's"
"Wow, this Mr. 87 directly quoted a price of $600,000, and there is no Ms. 16 who quoted $650,000 and Mr. 45 who quoted $700,000."
The price quickly rose from $200,000 to $980,000, which was almost five times the reserve price and almost sixty times the value of the same weight of sterling silver!
"This natural silver peacock is extremely realistic, it is an absolute treasure in natural silver, there is such a natural silver placed in your collection room, it can definitely make you very face-saving, like such a beautiful silver peacock, it is almost impossible to produce a second piece well, this lady No. 102 bid one million and fifty thousand dollars!"
Dunst's voice suddenly rose up, and it immediately set off the atmosphere of the scene.
"Wow, Mr. 45 has quoted a price of $1.1 million again, is there a higher price than this?"
After the price came to the million-dollar level, there were gradually fewer people bidding on the spot, but Dunst's eyes were so bright, and as a famous auction, Dunst presided over more than fifty auctions, plus he deliberately understood, so Dunst was still able to recognize many tycoons, and the tycoons he knew were definitely real tycoons with a lot of money. But at the moment, the seven or eight people bidding for these auctions are all those tycoons in the real sense.
This is what Dunster likes to see the most, these tycoons are all very face-saving, and generally speaking, unless they really like the item, they rarely compete with each other, because they all know each other's net worth, and this kind of competition is actually a great waste for them.
However, it was obvious that the seven or eight tycoons present were interested in the silver peacock, or simply liked the silver peacock very much, so they really fought with a gun.
"Okay, Mr. 166 is offering $1,660,000, wow, this price is the same as this gentleman's grade!"
"Lady No. 8 offered $1.7 million, $1.7 million, which is already the highest price for today"
"Mr. No. 166 offers $1.75 million" Mr. Dunst's voice trembled a little, in Dunst's heart, the auction price of this silver peacock should be between $1.1 million and $1.2 million, but now it has reached $1.75 million, which is far beyond the price in Dunst's heart, of course he is excited!
And it is clear that neither Mr. 166 nor Ms. 8 wants to give up this silver peacock, and most importantly, Mr. 166 and Ms. 8 Dunst both know each other, one is a diamond tycoon from South Africa, and the other is a noblewoman from the Junkers family in Europe! If these two put together, the price of this silver peacock will hit a new high!
Sure enough, before Dunst's idea fell, he saw that the noblewoman from the Junker family offered a new price!
"Wow, Ms. 8 quoted $1,880,000! One million eight hundred and eighty thousand dollars, this is the highest price today, the highest price today! Is there a higher bid than this? One million eight hundred and eighty thousand dollars for the first time, one hundred and eight hundred thousand dollars for the second time, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars for the third time! Okay, congratulations to Ms. 8 for successfully winning this natural silver peacock, and I will ask this lady to go backstage to handle the handover procedures later! Next, let's take a look at the second lot, which is also a piece of natural silver, but in the shape of a horse, with a starting price of $120,000 and a price increase of no less than $10,000 each time."
I have to say that Tang Feng's bad taste is very good, all kinds of natural silver with different shapes but quite realistic shapes have been sought after by all the tycoons present, even Tang Feng didn't expect that it was just a small idea at that time, and when he got this kind of occasion, it made these little guys double their value.
It can also be seen from this that the natural silver and natural gold that are naturally formed are very attractive. Not to mention anything else, the No. 8 lady from the Junker family alone spent more than 13 million dollars on the spot, auctioning off three pieces of natural silver and two pieces of natural gold, and the piece of natural gold that weighed a little more than seven kilograms and the piece that weighed a little more than five kilograms alone cost the No. 8 lady more than 10 million dollars.
For ordinary people, this amount of money is astronomical, but for such people from ancient families, it may only be worth a diamond necklace or a gemstone bracelet.
There are a lot of people like Mrs. 8 who don't take money seriously, and there are really a lot of people in today's scene, and the 11.88-kilogram natural gold football was auctioned off as a big shaft, and finally sold for a sky-high price of 14 million US dollars. You must know that the 11.88 kilogram of pure gold is only 450,000 US dollars, but this natural gold football, which is almost no different from a standard football, has been crazy to sell 30 times more than the same weight of pure gold!
The golden ball was photographed by an oil tycoon from Abu Dhabi, and it was clear that the oil tycoon was a guy who loved football, otherwise he would not have paid such a high price for this golden ball!
Doesn't it seem that Manchester City in the Premier League is controlled by the Abu Dhabi consortium?
People are rich, of course they are capricious! What do you get by buying such a golden ball? Tang Feng was even thinking, if he had come up with a natural gold in the shape of a Hercules cup, the gang of oil diggers would not have to give a price of 20 million?