Selling The Rock
Mary and the appraiser spent the next few days passing the ring through several tests to ascertain its value. A month later, they discovered a British royal had owned it in the nineteenth century. This new revelation almost doubled the ring’s initial value.
By the time a buyer took it off Mary’s hands, it’d been worth eight hundred thousand dollars. Although Mary only needed a few bucks to get her through the weeks after the storm hit her community, now her life was changed forever.