On Saturday morning, about 175 people attended the Monmouth County disposal auction.
They paid a total of about $80,000 for some 53 motor vehicles and 10 related items Monmouth County government sold as surplus from its motor pool, according to auctioneer Stephan J. Miranti of Auction Liquidation Services in Eatontown.
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The gold coin collection of a Boston Red Sox executive is expected to set a world’s record of more than $15 million when it is sold in Dallas this Thursday, November 3, 2005, by Heritage Galleries & Auctioneers of Dallas, Texas (www.HeritageCoins.com).
The collection of coins with historic links to President Theodore Roosevelt was […]

Four Virginia lighthouses put on the auction block by the federal government are now in private hands. The beacons will still warn ships away from shallow water, as lighthouses have for the past century and more, but they’ll also have private addresses.
The four were first put up for sale […]

If you have the money, you can still have an Xbox 360 before the New Year. Though most major retailers have sold out of the hugely anticipated console, eBay auctions have become extremely popular.
A Current bid for one such auction for a new Xbox 360 is: US $920.00 (Approximately C $1,082.75). That is […]

A man accused of scamming almost $3.7 million from an order of nuns added so many extras to some of his cars and SUVs that it’s hard to set a value on them for a bankruptcy auction, the auctioneer says.A Jaguar XJ8, a Cadillac Escalade and several Chevrolet Avalanches headline more than 40 cars, trucks […]

The only car the late Pope John Paul II ever owned sold at auction for $680,000 (383,445 pounds) on Saturday to a Houston attorney and car collector.
The car, which fetched much less than previous estimates of $2 million to $5 million, attracted four or five bids before being purchased by John O’Quinn, said a spokeswoman […]

In December, the New York Public Library is moving ahead with the sale of two portraits of George Washington by Gilbert Stuart, and 16 other paintings.
The sales are going ahead despite universal criticism of the NYPL when it sold Asher B Durand’s Kindred Spirits, a classic of the Hudson River School, to a Wal-Mart heiress […]