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Whats the oldest human made item you can buy for around 100€?

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I worked at auctions, being the offline 'online' buyer, so people could use me as an in person bidder for that online platform. I saw a ~~3500~~ 800 ish year old tiny Aztec sculpture go for 260 euro, around 2015. I was like, do I need to call the cops? What is happening?
- Definitely something was wrong there. Aztecs became a thing about 800 years ago.
  
  Hmmm, maybe it was 800yo instead of 800 bc or something, excuse me, but definitely Aztec!
  
  Definitely 800 years ago, not 800 BC
- 3500 yrs ago would be olmec probably
- How did you get into this job? It actually sounds quite fun, except it's something I'd never have considered doing because I didn't know it existed.
  
  Just describing it sounds fun. "I am an in person online bidder" "what?" "You heard me..."
  
  Proxies at auctions are actually quite common. There are plenty of people who have neither of the time nor interest to show up in person, so they just pay someone to do it for them.
  
  I worked in high end (food/event)service but my employer at the time had very diverse partnerships, one of them was offering this service and had the programmers themselves be present at the auctions too. But then they grew and couldn't fill all requests and we struck a partnership. I fit right in because of my above average IT knowledge in comparison with other service colleagues.
  There's a ton of offline"-online" auction services now a day, live bidding whatever you call it. You could google a couple of them inform them of your interest.
  The job itself was fun, so many objects I had never seen before! Very cool. It was also stressful, auctioning is live and sometimes the lot being auctioned off is worth a lot. Super fun to see your live-auction-system shit itself right in the middle of a 3 way bidding war

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