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Current Events & Trends | May 2010 | Rebecca Rego Barry

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A 1794 silver dollar sells for a record-breaking $7.85 million, and the "world's most valuable stamp" also changes hands for an undisclosed amount. Read the report in yesterday's New York Times. 

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