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Posted: October 24, 2012 at 5:03 a.m.
Jess Lipka, 51, a Flemington, N.J., coin and currency dealer, bid nearly $247,000 at a Dallas auction to become the proud owner of a rare $5 bill that was issued through the First National Bank of Fairbanks, Alaska, and presented in 1905 to U.S. Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks, for whom the Alaska city is named.
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