Pieces of Eight: The Crypto community as a force for good, a bargain £80k helmet and another British Guiana Collectable emerges
🦸🏼♀️ Cap worn by Amelia Earhart when she crossed the Atlantic is up for Auction. The leather cap could fetch at least $80,000 as it goes under the hammer this weekend. According to Heritage Auctions, which is running the sale, Earhart wore the cap when she became the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean by airplane.
💰 NYT report that as Russia’s invasion escalated over the weekend, Ukrainian officials made an unusual request on Twitter: Send us your crypto. Since then, cryptocurrency investors have donated more than $22 million worth of digital assets to the Ukrainian government and a nonprofit supporting the country’s military, according to data provided by the blockchain tracking firm Elliptic on Monday evening.
💵 A rarely encountered $20 note from British Guiana dated Jan. 1, 1942, with an estimated selling price of $20,000 to $25,000, is at the forefront of the 536 lots in the World Banknote Auctions Live Sale.The $20 note is one of six denominations printed in London by Waterlow & Sons Limited, they all have the Potaro River’s enormous Kaieteur Falls in the center on the face, with a toucan bird sitting on a branch at left, and a three-masted sailing ship in a seal at right.
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