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According to Forbes Krug Clos du Mesnil 1995 is the most expensive champagne that can be bought off the shelf.A single bottle will set you back $750.00 USD, but you'd better hurry as only 12,624 bottles were ever produced.
Not expensive enough for you?
On September 27 2005 A Methuselah of Louis Roederer Cristal 1990 sold for $14,730.00 in a London auction.
Chocopologie by Knipschildt, which was founded in 1999 by Fritz Knipschildt, sells the world's most expensive chocolate, a hand made chocolate with 70 percent Valrhona cocoa powder rolled over French Black truffle for a chocolaty $250.00 each or $2,600.00/pound.  The chocolates are only available by pre-order, but you can pick them up at 12 South Main Street Norwalk, Connecticut
The most expensive cigar is the brand of La Escepcion, which was made at the Partagas factory.Production of the brand was discontinued in 1985. The “Jose Gener Gran Gener” was the best cigar ever made by La Excepcion and is now a collector’s item. It was during it's time a full flavored medium strength Havana. There are very few left in the word of this popular 9-inch long and 24 ring gauge Havana. If you do get your hands on one, it will cost you a pretty penny or two. The price of just one of these cigars today is £367 or approximately $682.80 USD.
You can find all kinds of unique tobacco products for every brand on the market; however, Lucky Strike has the top billing for the most expensive cigarettes. In 2006, Lucky Strike created a one-off pack. The package that was created is what was so stunning. The cigarettes were placed in an 18-carat white gold package with one diamond and one ruby.
 The cigarette package was placed on display at various European airports throughout 2006 with smaller look-alike packs for sale in specific airports. The most expensive pack of Lucky Strikes had a price tag of $100,000 and was used to heighten the sales of the Lucky Strike brand.
When it comes to comics condition is everything.Action Comics #1, published in 1938, saw the birth of Superman.
Although not recently sold, the highest graded Action Comics #1 could easily fetch $500,000.00 USD.
This most expensive fountain pen was created in 1999 by Caran d’Ache. He designed this pen to show his respect and in the memory of Antoni Gaude a famous modernist architect that lived from 1852 until his death in 1926. 
The La Modernista Diamonds fountain pen is made of rhodium coated solid silver components, with an 18-carat gold nib and is covered with 5072 full cut top Wesselton VS diamonds which total a whopping 20 carats. There are 96 half cut rubies arranged on the top of cap, which forms the monogram.
The pen was sold in Harrods, London through a Swiss company, for $265,000 USD.
Not only is the Combat T98 the most expensive 4X4 but it is claimed to be the fastest armored all road vehicle in the world with protection capabilities from level B2 to level B7. The price tag is one that might have most people running the other way however, many enthusiasts are sure to place this at the top of their wish list. The basic cost is £79,177 but goes even higher if you want the top of the line protection which then you will have to add another £58,000.  This wonderful protection will not only protect your Combat T98 from scratches and dents at the shopping mall but will scare away any drive by shooter since it will protect the vehicle from 12.7 mm bullet. This awesome vehicle is based on GM components, which include an 8.1-liter engine, Allison transmission, and HD suspension. The bulletproof steel is reached by using hi-quality Germany steel that makes the body practically indestructible. It has the double body made on the base, which is the creation of "metal-ceramic sandwich with cellular filler" technology. Even the glass on the Combat T98 protects against the blast of a shotgun.
This may be one of the best vehicles around if you are concerned for your own protection of mine blasts, drive by shootings, or just an angry neighbor. The worst part is not too many can really afford to own and drive one of these 4x4’s. If this vehicle gets into the wrong hands, we had better come up with better ways to protect our money in the bank. Nothing could stop would be thieves if they had a Combat T98 as their get-a-way vehicle.
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Minted since 1850, the American 1933 Double Eagle is made of solid gold. In 1933 the US government decided against distributing the coin and they were all destroyed, or so they thought.
George McCann managed to steal 10 of the coins, but all were recovered and destroyed, or so they thought.
Three survived, two of them are now in the Smithsonian, and the third ended up in a private collection in Egypt. Eventually the coin made it to New York to be sold, but was seized by Federal Agents and stored in a vault in the WTC.Luckily, just weeks before 9/11 the coin was moved to Fort Knox.
July 30 2002 the coin was legally sold to an unnamed collector for just under $7,600,000.00 making it the most expensive coin in the world.
The world's most expensive autograph is that of William Shakespeare.
There are only six known authenticated copies of his autograph, one on a conveyance for a house in London, one on a deposition in a legal case, one on his mortgage papers, and three in his will, all are held in institutions.
Should one of William Shakespeare's autographs ever come up for auction it would fetch an estimated $5,000,000.00 USD.
Boston brewery Samuel Adams sells it's limited edition of Utopias for $100.00/24 ounce bottle. The production was limited to 8,000 copper bottles containing a brew with an alcohol content of 25 percent.
In September 2007 Australian Julian Hayward dished out $100,380.00 USD for a seat aboard Singapore Airlines' Airbus A380 for a flight from Singapore to Sydney.
Normally the seat would sell for a measly $3,391.00 but Julian Hayward out bid all bidders on eBay with his $100,380.00 to purchase the world's first ticket and become the world's first commercial passenger aboard the A380.
He does get a couple extra perks for the extra $96,989.00 he dished out such as a special dinner and a trip to France to see the airline take delivery A380, he can also sleep well at night knowing his "donation" will go to a variety of charities.
Apartment hunting is always a tough challenge but even more so if you’re looking in London, England’s apartment complex, One Hyde Park. It is here that there are four penthouse apartments have been developed by Candy & Candy and designed by architect Richard Rogers. In addition to the penthouse apartments, there are also eighty apartments all of which have access to communal spas, squash courts, and a wine-tasting facility open only to residents. The building is expected to have construction completed in 2010, although all of the units sold out in 2007. When finished, the building will cost 1.5 billion pounds, approximately three billion dollars American. It is being funded by Qatar’s foreign minister.
 The most expensive apartment in the world is one of the penthouse units in this high-class building, costing over 100 million pounds, about 200 million dollars American. Every penthouse will feature bulletproof glass, panic rooms, and an underground tunnel that leads to a hotel nearby, among other security features. If you like the look but don’t have that kind of cash, you can buy another one of the units for 20 million pounds, approximately 40 million dollars American.
In the early days tobacco companies were the producers of baseball card and included them with their cigarettes.
Honus Wagner was among the greatest shortstops in the world and he did not want to promote smoking so in 1909 when Sweet Caporal and Piedmont started giving out the current set Honus Wagner had his card pulled. As a result less than 60 are known to exist and few of them in mint condition. In July 2000 a T206 Honus Wagner card once owned by Bruce McNall and Wayne Gretzky sold on eBay for a smoking $1.27 million USD.
The monks of the Benedictine monastery Helmarshausen were commissioned by Brunswick's ruler Henry and his wife Mathilde in 1188 to write the Gospels of Henry the Lion.
The book is the record of Henry's political ambitions to become one of the most powerful ruler in his era.
Gospels of Henry the Lion
The book sold at auction in 1983 for 32.5 million deutsche marks or just about $12 million USD.
This Bugatti Type 41 Royale was the brainchild of Ettore Bugatti--and also a hugely expensive misstep in the history of his firm. In the 1920s, Bugatti was expecting to get a contract from the French military to build 16-cylinder aircraft engines. The contract never materialized, but Bugatti felt he could use half that engine, a straight eight, to form one of the most amazing luxury cars in history. A mere six Royale's were produced and two were never sold, staying instead with the Bugatti estate.
In 1987,the car was sold for a record £5.5 million at London's Royal Albert Hall before an audience of 4,000 enthusiasts.
Now the present anonymous owner--believed to be Japanese--has commissioned Bonham & Brooks in London to offer the Bugatti Royale for resale to anyone willing to pay the asking price which is estimated to be $10-12 million.
The Wynn Las Vegas designed by Steve Wynn and Tom Fazio holds the honor of being the world's most expensive casino.
Boasting 2,716 rooms, 50 stories, a luxury sports car dealership and 111,000 ft² of gaming space, the Wynn Las Vegas now stands where the Desert Inn once did.
After 3 years in the making the Wynn opened on April 28 2005 at a cost of $2.7 Billion USD.
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