[Stoat]

Live rates at 2009.10.13 09:05:18 UTC
100,000,000.00 GBP	=	157,275,754.50 USD
United Kingdom Pounds		United States Dollars
1 GBP = 1.57276 USD		1 USD = 0.635826 GBP

XE.com GBP to USD rate 100,000,000.00 GBP = 157,275,754.50 USD

[SES1066]

It sold for $19,000 (hammer) to New York dealer Kate Ganz, who sold it (for about the same sum) to the Canadian-born, Europe-based connoisseur Peter Silverman in 2007.

2009 = 157,275,754.50 USD

A mere 8,277% increase and a very, Very, VERY GREAT INVESTMENT! Of course the buyer took his chances and had to make a, for the time, large investment. However, I am sure that some governmental tax collector somewhere is looking VERY CLOSELY at the whole situation.

[Tainan]

Heck...that’d be enough for me to retire and successfully develop a long litany of bad habits.