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The Masters green jacket that somebody once bought for $5 just sold for an absurd amount of money

Earlier this week a green jacket — a real, legendary green jacket — went up for Auction on Green Jacket Auctions. It’s the only known Green Jacket to hit the open market, and it once went for a paltry $5, according to the listing:

When the so-called “Thrift Store Green Jacket” was first discovered in 1994, the speculation was rampant. Was it real, and if so, where did it come from? The jacket itself revealed few clues. The internal tagging definitively dates the jacket to the early 1950s – one of the earliest green jackets in existence. But the original owner’s name was tantalizingly cut out of the jacket. Augusta National Golf Club may have unintentionally fanned the flames of speculation, as they confirmed the jacket’s authenticity but then refused to answer any questions as to the identity of its original owner. Could it be the long lost green jacket of a Masters Tournament Champion? Did a member mistakenly, or intentionally, remove the green jacket from the club’s grounds many years ago?

Now, it’s just been sold.

For how much, you ask? After an opening bid of $5,000 at the start of the week, after 35 separate offers, the winning bid on Sunday numbered at $139,348.80

Here’s the full listing.

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