A six-dollar plastic crown is auctioning for $ 594,000
A plastic crown sold its original price when bought from the store for six dollars, for 594,750 dollars during an auction organized by Sotheby's in New York.
The reason is that the New York rapper, Notorious B.I.
G ("Peggy") wore it during a photo session hours before his assassination.
The crown remained in the possession of the photographer who was photographing during this historic session for the magazine "Rap Pages", in Manhattan on March 6, 1997, three days before the assassination of "Peggy" in Los Angeles.
The crown was sold along with three copies of a historic "Biggie" photo that was featured on the cover of "Rap Pages".
The crown was sold Tuesday at a price nearly double what Sotheby's was expecting, at $ 300,000.
The crown was part of an auction centered on hip-hop and included items directly related to its history.
In recent years, auctions have organized auctions for items that keep pace with the interests of a new generation of collectors, for example auctions for rare sneakers or skateboards.
Sotheby's launched this hip-hop auction on the popularity of rap, which emerged in the 1990s and became the most popular music genre in the United States.
During the auction a set of 32 hip-hop radio-cassettes was sold for $ 113,400.
22 love letters written by rapper Tupac Shakur, Peggy's ex-boyfriend and then his opponent, when he was a teenager in Baltimore sold for $ 75,000.
The proceeds from this auction are due in part to charities, including Building Pets, which promote liberation through music.
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