$54000 Whiskey

A bottle of 81-year-old Scotch sold for $54,000 at this New York's first liquor auction since Prohibition. The auction was held at Christies.

A total of $304,800 worth of rare wine and liquor were sold at the 100-lot auction.

The top lot was a collection of 729 bottles of whiskey, which went for $102,000.

The $54,000 bottle of scotch was distilled at Macallan in Scotland in 1926. It was bottled in 1986 and rebottled in 2002.