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Wed, 11 Jul 2012 13:57:58 GMT | By The Life, Business Insider
The wackiest things money can buy

If you had incredible wealth, would you spend your money on these wacky items?

A hotdog, pigeon, violin and one-cent coin are just a few of the wackiest purchases made this year.
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  • A hotdog, pigeon, violin and one-cent coin are just a few of the wackiest purchases made this year.
  • A hotdog sold for $1,501 in Little Rock, Arkansas where the proceeds were donated to the charity of The One Inc. (© iStockphoto)
  • Hu Zhen Yu paid a record-breaking $328,000 for a Dutch fancy pigeon of the Dolce Vita breed. (© iStockphoto)
  • A Cali Paterson Colt revolver sold for US$977,500 in September 2011. (© Handout/Heritage Auctions)
  • A United States one-cent coin from 1793. It sold for 1.38 million dollars. (© x)
  • Cassius Clay (now Muhammad Ali) in action against Sonny Liston during their heavyweight title fight at Miami Beach; Florida. Clay won the contest; becoming world champion. (© Central Press/Getty Images)
  • A student looks at a lightbox depicting the comic strip character Tintin displayed in a shop at the Herge Museum in Louvain. (© Yves Herman/Reuters)
  • A century-old Oldmobile was sold at RM Auction in February 2012, (© Handout/RM Auctions)
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The global economy has been taking a beating, but that doesn't mean Russian oligarchs, Saudi princes and the rest of the .001% have stopped spending absurd amounts of money on strange, extravagant, and ridiculously cool items.
Many of the most extreme purchases were made in auction houses. Others were simply tremendous displays of wealth by the world's richest people.
From cars to guns to live animals, here are the 10 wackiest purchases people made in the past 12 months.

All items have been converted to Canadian currency.

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