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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Technology
Alan Martin

A $175 cheque from Steve Jobs just sold for a fortune

A cheque from a key moment in Apple’s history has sold at auction for a whopping $106,985 — or nearly £86,000.

Signed by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs on Thursday, 8 July, 1976, the cheque was only for $175 (£140), meaning that it has seen an impressive 61,034 per cent increase in value in the intervening 47 years (albeit, without accounting for inflation).

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