What classes as a rare item in this day of age, is it clothing, cars or do we look past the items that actually create the real hidden spectacles. Among many thoughts that people must often wonder, I decided to read up on my own, what are the rarest items on the planet?

A number of things pop into mind instantly such as diamonds, oil, artefacts or just famous items, for example sporting medals such as world cup’s or even expensive jewellery.

It begged the question, if on one of your average days you were to stumble across something, any item in the world, what would you want to find, this is where my research will hopefully come in handy.

The first answer to my inquest was a penny black stamp which was an interesting answer until I found out that the most expensive printed piece was a signature from Shakespeare, with only six of them they cost around £2.5 million each.



Most people’s initial choice would most likely be some kind of gem or element, which is understandable when you look at the rarest gem called the jadeite, although it seems less appealing than a diamond or gold its rareness gives it an incredible price tag, a 5mm jadeite bead was sold for $9.3 million.



During my inquest I realised that one of the only ways to find out the incredible prices and items that have been sold would be to search EBay’s highest priced items of all time.

This turned out to be more astonishing rather than useful towards my search, along with planes, boats, baseball cards and a Zagami Martian Meteorites I found out that lunch with Warren Buffett, the investor at NYC’s Smith & Wollensky steakhouse was auctioned and sold for $2.63 million.

Moving on to drinks I discovered the most expensive champagne called the Henri IV Cognac Grande Champagne, amazingly this 100 centilitre bottle is priced at 2 million pounds each, its less the alcohol that makes the price but more what covers the drink, the liquor is housed in a bottle dipped in 24K yellow gold and sterling platinum and 6,500 diamonds, not the drink you want to unmistakably order on a night out.

My search continued onto elements, along with illegal drugs, gold, platinum and all the elements that sprung to mind, I was surprised to find out that the element that is priced the highest is Antimatter, despite the impossibility of stumbling across this it has got its uses and something many scientist have described as the most precious thing we have.

It is possible to create antimatter and it has been tried through the CERN accelerator in Switzerland, this incredible machine attempts the create the element that scientists hope will fuel rocket ships to reach distant planets and stars, the most expensive thing in the world, antimatter is priced at $62.5 trillion per gram.

