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SweetFreedom Posted 12 years ago
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Go under the hammer for up to $3.5 million?
Does " go under the hammer for up to $3.5 million" mean "auction at the base price of $3.5 million"?
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(CNN) -- DNA pioneer James Watson is to sell the Nobel Prize he won for his co-discovery of the double helix structure -- the building block of life.
The coveted gold medal is expected to go under the hammer for up to $3.5 million in a sale at Christie's in New York on December 4.
It will be the first time a Nobel Prize has been sold by a living recipient.
Watson, now 85, was awarded the medal, for work in the field of physiology or medicine, alongside fellow scientists Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins in 1962.
MOre:
http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/25/world/james-watson-to-sell-nobel-prize/index.html?hpt=wo_c2
Context:
(CNN) -- DNA pioneer James Watson is to sell the Nobel Prize he won for his co-discovery of the double helix structure -- the building block of life.
The coveted gold medal is expected to go under the hammer for up to $3.5 million in a sale at Christie's in New York on December 4.
It will be the first time a Nobel Prize has been sold by a living recipient.
Watson, now 85, was awarded the medal, for work in the field of physiology or medicine, alongside fellow scientists Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins in 1962.
MOre:
http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/25/world/james-watson-to-sell-nobel-prize/index.html?hpt=wo_c2
Top answer
5 million"? 5 m is the top estimated selling price.
- 5 million"?
- 5 m is the top estimated selling price.
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SweetFreedomDoes " go under the hammer for up to $3.5 million" mean "auction at the base price of $3.5 million"?No; $3.5 m is the top estimated selling price.
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The way of the auction seems a bit weird.
I wonder how they will deal it if two or more people offer $3.5 m at the same time.
I wonder how they will deal it if two or more people offer $3.5 m at the same time.
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SweetFreedom wonder how they will deal it if two or more people offer $3.5 m at the same time.Someone is always first; in any case, the other bidder can increase the offer; $3.5 m is not a cap; it is just an estimated sale price.
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