SortStack #1907 — 2031-08-29
By price · Order from cheapest to most expensive.
- A US Forever postage stamp $0.78
Forever stamps never expire and stay valid even after rate hikes — buying sheets before an increase is one of America's tiniest investments.
- LEGO's giant Ultimate Collector Series Millennium Falcon set $850
At over 7,500 pieces it is one of the largest LEGO sets ever sold — sealed originals of the 2007 version have resold for several times the new price.
- A banana duct-taped to a wall, the artwork 'Comedian' $6.2M
The 2024 buyer, a crypto entrepreneur, ate the banana at a press conference. The artwork is really a certificate — owners get instructions for replacing the fruit.
- The Oppenheimer Blue, the largest fancy vivid blue diamond ever auctioned $57.5M
Blue diamonds owe their color to traces of boron and form deeper in the Earth than almost any other gem — only a handful surface each year.
- The largest lottery jackpot ever won, a single-ticket Powerball prize $2B
The 2022 winner, a California man, took the lump sum of just under a billion dollars — then made headlines buying multiple mansions.
- The entire Apollo Moon program, in the dollars of its day $25.4B
At its peak, Apollo employed about 400,000 people and consumed more than 4% of the US federal budget — per landing, each Moon mission cost less than a modern aircraft carrier.