Original Super Bowl rings do turn up at auctions or (cue the tragic melody) at pawn shops, where they bring sums that can go into six figures.
Many artworks went unsold, others brought sums that were lower than expected and a small number of works were sold for exceptionally high prices - a pattern that repeats what happened at Christie's and Sotheby's throughout the May sales of Latin American, Impressionist, modern, contemporary and European and American art of the 19th and 20th centuries.
I'd recently abandoned teaching to go back to school full-time, which meant foolishly taking out several dozen thousand dollars in student loans to heap upon the $60,000 debt from my undergraduate education, bringing the sum total to a bloated figure in the six digits.
It was the second time in two months that Egyptian authorities had stopped Hamas officials from bringing large sums of money into Gaza.
In the lean years that followed the flight of their Ukrainian patron, Manafort and Gates allegedly tapped into their foreign holdings, bringing large sums back home and presenting those transactions not as repatriated assets but as new income — thereby persuading banks to lend them more than $20 million that, prosecutors argue, they otherwise would not have qualified for.
We read that there are many entertainers bringing home sums ranging from $50 million to $100 million a year.
The drawings all went for six-figure sums, bringing the total for the collection to £412,000 against a pre-sale estimate of £58,000.
It announced that the task would require an additional 15 billion euros in savings over four years, bringing the total sum of tax increases and spending cuts to about 30 percent of Ireland's total economic output.
Her fingers move almost as fast as her eyes as she clicks a small silver counter four times bringing the total sum of visitors so far that day to 107.
FROM BLOOMBERG TO JOHNS HOPKINS, A $1.1 BILLION THANK-YOU | Michael R. Bloomberg, the New York City mayor, made a $350 million gift to Johns Hopkins University on Sunday, bringing the sum of his donations over the past four decades to $1.1 billion, Michael Barbarbo reports in The New York Times.
