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Heritage Auctions is an auction house established in 1976 in Dallas, Texas.

Heritage is the largest collectibles auctioneer in the world.

An auction is a process of buying and selling goods or services by offering them up for bid, taking bids, and then buying the item to the highest bidder.

The open ascending price auction is arguably the most common form of auction in use today.

Participants bid openly against one another, with each subsequent bid required to be higher than the previous bid.

An auctioneer may announce prices, bidders may call out their bids themselves (or have a proxy call out a bid on their behalf), or bids may be submitted electronically with the highest current bid publicly displayed.

In a Dutch auction, the auctioneer begins with a high asking price for some quantity of like items; the price is lowered until a participant is willing to accept the auctioneer's price for some quantity of the goods in the lot or until the seller's reserve price is met.

While auctions are most associated in the public imagination with the sale of antiques, paintings, rare collectibles and expensive wines, auctions are also used for commodities, livestock, radio spectrum and used cars.

In economic theory, an auction may refer to any mechanism or set of trading rules for exchange.

A collectable (collectible or collector's item) is any object regarded as being of value or interest to a collector (not necessarily monetarily valuable or antique).

There are numerous types of collectables and terms to denote those types.

An antique is a collectable that is old.

A curio is a small, usually fascinating or unusual item sought after by collectors.

A manufactured collectable is an item made specifically for people to collect.

Wine (from Latin vinum) is an alcoholic beverage made from fermented grapes.

These grapes are generally Vitis vinifera, or a hybrid with Vitis labrusca or Vitis rupestris.

Grapes are fermented without the addition of sugars, acids, enzymes, water, or other nutrients.

Yeast consumes the sugar in the grapes and converts it to ethanol and carbon dioxide.

Different varieties of grapes and strains of yeasts produce different styles of wine.

These variations result from the complex interactions between the biochemical development of the grape, the reactions involved in fermentation, the terroir, and the production process.

Many countries enact legal appellations intended to define styles and qualities of wine.

These typically restrict the geographical origin and permitted varieties of grapes, as well as other aspects of wine production.

A currency (from, "in circulation", from) in the most specific use of the word refers to money in any form when in actual use or circulation as a medium of exchange, especially circulating banknotes and coins.

A more general definition is that a currency is a system of money (monetary units) in common use, especially in a nation.

Under this definition, US dollars, British pounds, Australian dollars, and European euros are examples of currency.

These various currencies are recognized stores of value and are traded between nations in foreign exchange markets, which determine the relative values of the different currencies.

Currencies in this sense are defined by governments, and each type has limited boundaries of acceptance.