Fender Stratocaster: The Most Expensive Guitar

The world's most expensive guitar is still a Stratocaster, after the other strat, Eric Clapton's 'Blackie'. This guitar was sold at an auction in Doha, Qatar on November 16th, 2005, to raise funds for tsunami victims in Asia. The guitar was signed by several rock musicians to benefit a tsunami charity, ‘Reach out to Asia’. Co-ordinated by Bryan Adams, it is signed by Eric Clapton, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian May, Jimmy Page, David Gilmour, Jeff Beck, Pete Townsend, Mark Knopfler, Ray Davis, Liam Gallagher, Ronnie Wood, Tony Iommi, Angus & Malcolm Young, Paul McCartney, Sting, Ritchie Blackmore, Def Leppard, and Bryan Adams himself.

It was initially by Qatar’s royal family for $1 million and then donated back to the Asia Program, bringing in $2.7 million USD. The guitar has generated a total of $3.7 million USD for charity, making it the most expensive guitar yet.

The event was conducted by Sotheby's Henry Wyndham, who said, "I have auctioned many items for charity in my life but never have I witnessed the levels we achieved tonight. This will stay in my memory for a very long time indeed." at the more recent auction, whose attendees included US Former President Bill Clinton.

The Largest Gold Coin in the World

The coin is made of 99.999% pure gold, weighs 100 kg and has a face value of $1 million US, but the solid gold bullion would be worth about $2.4 million US if the coin was melted down.


The coin with maple leaves on one side and Queen Elizabeth II on the other, was minted by the Royal Canadian Mint. They also have plans to mint at least four more coins in the series.  So if you’ve got a couple of millions on hand then you can bid for this world’s largest coin.

Kopi Luwak (Indonesia) most expensive coffee in the world

Coffee is probably the most popular hot beverage in the world. About 60 percent of People drink two to four cups per day. There are several varieties on the market. There are a number of delicious varieties that are rare and therefore expensive negotiated. The world's most expensive coffee comes from Indonesia and called Kopi Luwak. The high price is justified because it is a very special method to make them. The price is "only" 1000 USD per kilograms. Only 230 kilograms per year on the Indonesian island of Java, Sumatra and Suilawesi produced. That alone makes it strange. In addition to these special beans to be fermented.

At first coffee beans are perfectly normal, a mixture with other arabica varieties show. These will be normal in plantations in Indonesia. The cat disguised "Musange luwak" is that these beans to do something special. The cats eat the animals, among other things, the fruit of the coffee, which formerly were the plagues decimated the crop regularly. Only later it was found that a preference for crops is beneficial.

But now the cat has hidden Indonesian coffee with performance to create an expensive rarity. At the risk, making it one way or another in the stomach suggests, then, is the secret of the transformation of the coffee and the special flavor of coffee in the digestive enzymes and acid in the stomach of the cat door. After the cats have verspeist coffee cherries, digest the flesh that are nothing more than what surrounds the coffee bean. After some time the cats, the undigested coffee beans again, leading to fermentation of the grains leads. Obviously, the first light of broad beans before roasting cleaning processes prior to entering the world as a specialty act. Once you now how the coffee bean from the tree to the cup of coffee knows, you can probably never verdenken if you prefer to want to miss this unique beverage. Fortunately, the coffee market alternative, and a little less extravagant oddities exactly how the Kopi Luwak coffee lover's palate through a special taste spoiled.

Of course, this may be pure, and other specialty coffee in the supermarket is around the corner to buy. For lovers of rare coffees are standard on the Café Lem
roasted fresh daily. The cafes offer here, however, only small companies to work closely with the private sector cooperate tostado. Besides coffees Gour met South America, Africa and Asia are also the most expensive coffee in the world. With prices starting at just 20 euros per pound of coffee are also rare affordable for all. On the website under the Private Coffee Roasters serie.de find detailed information about the supply of coffee, and production and processing.

So if you wanna taste this coffee in low price, just visit indonesia.

The world's largest diamond

Spectacular Diamond size are rarely discovered. Oil stones, with several hundred carats are usually after the cut and ground. Some diamonds are with a record weight. Ernest Blom, president of the World Federation of Diamond Bourses has now withdrawn fully from the verification process of the stone. Blom's requirement of witnessing the stone has not been met. Weighing 8,000-carat, this diamond dugged by the South Africa’s north-west province was considered to be more than twice the size of the world’s largest diamond of 3,000-carat discovered in 1905.

The "Cullinan" diamond found in South Africa in 1905. The stone has a weight of 3106.7 carats (one carat is 0.2 grams) and was later divided into several parts. The drift, inter alia, Diamond "Star of Africa", with 530 carats is one of the jewels of the British crown.




The "Star of Sierra Leone" was 1972 in the West African country excavated. The diamond with a gross weight of 969 carats, was divided into 17 stones.








Around 1650 he discovered the "great Mogul" was named after the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan appointed, the builder of the Taj Mahal in Agra India. The rough diamond was 793 carats and is considered missing since 1739.





South Africa the "Golden Jubilee" in 1985, was 755 carats, fetched the ground. After the conversion remained 545 carats. Thus, he is considered the largest polished diamond in the world.





The "Centenary" in a diamond mine in South Africa in 1986 Erzgestein weighs 599 carats. 273 carat polished yet hard, rock, according to the De Beers Group for more than $ 100 million U. S. insured.






When weighing 190 carats "Orloff" is in India, is unknown. It adorns the scepter of the Russian Tsars, and is now in the Kremlin in Moscow to admire.







The Koh-i-Noor (Mountain of Light) is about the year 1100 in India had been discovered. 1306 was the 105.6-nent rock first time in a Hindu text. Today was priceless diamond 1849 the then British colony of Queen Victoria of England and is now kept in the Tower of London.