One anonymous collector just paid another anonymous collector $5 million for a rare $10 coin that was made for Andrew Jackson in 1834. "It is one of the rare U.S. coins out there," Douglas Mudd of the American Numismatic Association Museum tells the Associated Press. "They are neat pieces in that in one sense they are not really a coin made in 1804, even though it is dated 1804 ... it is sort of a created coin."
AP says the same coin, which features Lady Liberty in a turban, sold for $1 million in 2003 and $2.47 million in 2005. By our calculations -- based purely on past performance and without any knowledge of the coin market -- it's on track to sell again in 2007 for somewhere between $10.1 million $12.35 million.
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