The 10 Most Outrageous Items People Bought In January
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2013 started off with some impressive sales, including record prices for a mansion in California and Ferrari 250 GT.</p>
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One famous baby even got a diamond-encrusted Barbie doll for her first birthday <span class="st">--</span> and you won't believe what it cost her parents.</p>
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We learned this month that a <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/360-woodside-mountain-road-home-sold-2013-1">9,000-square-foot mansion in Woodside</a> had quietly traded hands for the staggering price of $117.5 million dollars, making it the most expensive residence ever sold in California.<br />
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The mansion was designed by Virginia-based architect Allan Greenberg, and sits on nine acres of property.<br />
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It was never publicly listed, and the buyer remains anonymous. The seller was Tully Friedman of Friedman Fleischer and Lowe LLC, a San Francisco investment firm.</p>
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A 1794 silver dollar that experts believe was the first such coin struck by the U.S. Mint sold for a record $10 million at auction at Stack's Bowers Galleries.<br />
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The coin, called the Flowing Hair Silver Dollar, sold for more than double the previous $4.1 million record for a coin, which was set in 1999.<br />
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It was purchased by Legend Numismatics, a rare-coin firm based in New Jersey, according to <a href="http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-01-24/news/sns-rt-us-coins-auction-recordbre90o061-20130124_1_million-coin-collectors-silver-dollar-martin-logies">Reuters</a>.</p>
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Photo: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1795DollarObverse.png" target="_blank">Dave Baker, Wikipedia</a></p>
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The top lot at RM Auctions' Scottsdale, Ariz., sale this month, a Ferrari 250 GT SWB Berlinetta sold for more than $8 million after a bidding war.<br />
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It's the fifth owner for the 1960 auto; the buyer remains anonymous.</p>
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Baby Blue Ivy has been a celebrity from the moment she was born to Jay-Z and Beyonce last year.<br />
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So perhaps it was inevitable that instead of a normal toy, she received a custom-made, $80,000 Barbie doll from her parents for her first birthday this month, as <a href="http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/4741106/Diamond-Barbie-for-Beyonce-baby.html">The Sun</a> reported.<br />
What made the toy so expensive? It was supposedly encrusted with 160 diamonds and decked out in jewelry made from real white gold.</p>
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Photo: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbYKFiphG28" target="_blank">YouTube.com</a></p>
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An anonymous buyer paid a record-breaking $27 million for the 7,100-square-foot penthouse at Miami Beach's The Setai.<br />
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The apartment, which takes up the entire 40th floor of the hotel/condo building, has a private infinity pool, hot tub, massive terrace, and floor-to-ceiling windows with views of the Atlantic.</p>
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A 489-pound tuna caught off the coast of Japan <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/bluefin-tuna-sells-for-record-breaking-18-million-2013-1">sold at the country's Tsukiji fish market</a> for a whopping $1.8 million, nearly three times the previous high set last year.<br />
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The winning bidder was Kiyoshi Kimura, president of the company that operates Japan's Sushi-Zanmai restaurant chain.</p>
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He said at the time that he planned to serve the fish to customers later that day.</p>
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The <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/original-batmobile-sold-for-46-million-at-auction-2013-1">iconic '60s Batmobile sold for $4.6 million</a> at the Barrett-Jackson classic car auction in Arizona earlier this month.<br />
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Los Angeles car customizer George Barris bought the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/the-original-1966-batmobile-was-bought-for-1-from-ford-2012-10" target="_blank">1955 Lincoln Futura concept car from Ford for $1</a>. It took him 15 days and $15,000 to convert the car into the Batmobile.<br />
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The buyer of the car is a Phoenix-area logistics company executive, Rick Champagne, who said he paid more than $4 million because of the woman who accompanied him to the auction.</p>
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A photo of a teenage Diana Spencer before she became a princess <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/check-out-this-scandalous-never-before-seen-photo-of-princess-diana-2013-1">sold at an auction house in New Hampshire this month</a> for more than $18,000.<br />
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The black-and-white picture shows "a young Diana lying in bed, with a young man seated behind her, and a bottle of Johnnie Walker sitting on the window sill."<br />
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The buyer is still unknown.</p>
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Photo: Robert Michaelson / <a href="http://milford-nh.patch.com/articles/never-before-seen-princess-diana-photo-sold-for-how-much#photo-12853151" target="_blank">AOL Milford Patch</a></p>
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A woodcut titled "The Rhinoceros" sold for $866,500 at a Christie's auction in late January, well above the pre-sale estimate of $100,000 to $150,000.<br />
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While the buyer of the piece, which dates from 1515, remained anonymous, the seller was identified by <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-30/durer-rhinoceros-fetches-record-866-500-at-christie-s.html">Bloomberg</a> as Swiss collector Samuel Josefowitz.</p>
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A rare coin from 1796 -- one of only 1,400 half-cent coins ever minted at the Philadelphia Mint -- sold for a high price at auction in England this month.<br />
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Prior to being sold, the coin had been hidden inside a matchbox for 50 years before it was discovered by the family of the man who previously owned it, according to the <a href="http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/427499/20130124/coinc-auction-united-states.htm">IBTimes</a>.</p>
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<strong>How do those buys stack up?</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/most-outrageous-purchases-in-december-2012-12">The 10 Most Outrageous Purchases People Made In December </a></p>
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