| Big bucks on the other side of the coin
MUMBAI: You may have sometimes put your hands at the back of an old almirah and found an envelope that felt surprisingly heavy, or perhaps a tin that rattles. Opening it, you found coins: maybe really old ones—lumpy copper coins, ragged edged silver coins—or perhaps coins from other countries, ring-shaped or bimetallic, or Indian coins no longer in common circulation. You might have also found metal tokens or badges or medals, but mostly there'll be coins, no longer of any real value as currency, but which your father or grandfather could never quite bring themselves to discard them. Perhaps you won't have the same compunctions—though in fact it can be surprisingly hard to throw coins away, thanks to our superstitious tendency to link them to luck and prosperity. But assuming you do, and have ever wondered what happens to them, the answer is that they probably end up at the coin fair and auction organised in Mumbai every year by Todywalla's Auctions, India's leading auction house for coins, medals, tokens and paper money.
Sacramento sheriff auction of Simpson book rights delayed
LOS ANGELES - An auction scheduled for today for the rights to O.J. Simpson's book, "If I Did It," was delayed because the company that originally brokered the book deal between Simpson and a publishing firm filed for bankruptcy, an attorney said.Santa Monica Superior Court Judge Gerald Rosenberg had ordered the auction with the condition that all proceeds from any book that may be published be given to the family of Ronald Goldman, who was slain in Brentwood in 1994 along with Simpson's ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson. Simpson, an ex-USC and NFL star, was charged with the killings but was acquitted in 1995. .
Thompson leads charge to require school bids
County officials voted to set back construction on four new Sumner schools and eight renovations Monday, saying they wanted to see architects compete for the design contracts. Commissioners on the budget committee wouldn't fund the Sumner school board's decision to hire two often-used architectural firms to oversee the building program, which was approved by the education committee last month. .
TPG pulls out of Sainsbury bidding group -source
LONDON, April 10 (Reuters) - Private equity firm Texas Pacific Group [TPG.UL] has withdrawn from the group bidding for UK supermarket chain J. Sainsbury (SBRY.L: Quote, Profile, Research), and was not part of the sweeteend 10.1 billion pound ($19.9 billion) offer, a person familiar with the situation said on Tuesday. "It's price and the feeling that Lord Sainsbury is not going to sell no matter what," said the source, who requested anonymity because of the confidential nature of the negotiations. Texas Pacific and the consortium both declined to comment. The suitor group, led by CVC Capital Partners [CVC.UL], submitted a raised offer of 582 pence a share, another source earlier told Reuters, but the Sainsbury family is holding out for at least 600p, a third source said.
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