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The GreatCollections.com website launched in late 2010, facilitating the sale and purchase of coins and paper money in online auctions. [6] It has since become well known for auctioning rare examples of American currency, [ 7 ] [ 8 ] such as the Cigarra Collection, [ 9 ] and a collection of Indian Head nickels that sold for over $500,000.
Heritage Auctions is an American multi-national auction house based in Dallas, Texas. Founded in 1976, Heritage is an auctioneer of numismatic collections, comics , fine art, books, luxury accessories, real estate, and memorabilia from film, music, history, and sports.
The silent auction is a variant of the English auction in which bids are written on a sheet of paper. At the predetermined end of the auction, the highest listed bidder wins the item. [85] This auction is often used in charity events, with many items auctioned simultaneously and "closed" at a common finish time.
The building's auction table was 3 feet (0.91 m) high and 10 feet (3.0 m) long and stood just inside the arched doorway. [3] In addition to enslaved people, the market sold real estate and stock. [4] Slave auctions at Ryan's Mart were advertised in broadsheets throughout the 1850s, some appearing as far away as Galveston, Texas.
Western Art Week was founded in 1969. [6] The event was built around the C.M. Russell Art Auction, which was founded by local television personality and civic booster Norma Ashby to benefit the C.M. Russell Museum. [6] The C.M. Russell Art Auction raised more than $5.6 million for the museum between 1969 and 2009. [6]
Auction sniping (also called bid sniping) is the practice, in a timed online auction, of placing a bid likely to exceed the current highest bid (which may be hidden) as late as possible—usually seconds before the end of the auction—giving other bidders no time to outbid the sniper.
An online auction (also electronic auction, e-auction, virtual auction, or eAuction) is an auction held over the internet and accessed by internet connected devices. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Similar to in-person auctions, online auctions come in a variety of types , with different bidding and selling rules.
The generalized second-price auction (GSP) is a non-truthful auction mechanism for multiple items. Each bidder places a bid. The highest bidder gets the first slot, the second-highest, the second slot and so on, but the highest bidder pays the price bid by the second-highest bidder, the second-highest pays the price bid by the third-highest, and so on.