From the Book - First edition.
One cent (1856: printed, sold, and forgotten)
Six shillings (1873: found by a twelve-year-old)
£120 (1878: Glasgow and London)
£150 (1878: the man in the yachting cap)
$32,500 (1922: the plutocrat with the cigar)
$40,000 (1940: the angry widow, Macy's and the other plutocrat)
$286,000 (1970: the Wilkes-Barre eight)
$935,000 (1980: "the man showed up")
$9.5 million (2014: "I expected to see magenta, and I saw magenta").