Heritage Auctions offers an example of the insanely rare 1913 Liberty Head nickel in April.
Heritage Auctions was founded in Dallas, in 1976, by a pair of rare-coin dealers.
Doug Norwine, of Heritage Auctions, said the piano was "an emotionally-charged prized possession of the King himself".
The Dallas-based Heritage Auctions, which ran the sale, described it as "one of the most spectacular jewels in our auction".
Dallas-based Heritage Auctions said it is only the second time that a Nobel medal has been offered at a public auction.
Heritage Auctions identified the buyer as Jack Wang, CEO of Biomobie, a regenerative medicine technology company located in Silicon Valley and Shanghai.
The bidding, organized by a company called Heritage Auctions, began with two amethyst geodes that, when paired, resembled the ears of an alert rabbit.
Heritage Auctions, for its part, has reorganized its natural-history department.
Twenty percent of the proceeds from the Heritage Auctions sale will go to the new Francis Crick Institute in London, a medical research institute slated to open in 2015.
The medal will be sold later at Heritage Auctions in New York together with the cheque and diploma Crick received as part of the prize and one of his lab coats, which has "various stains on it".
One way to make sure those babies keep rising in price: Halperin allows Heritage employees--himself included--to bid on items it auctions off.
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