A super rare, 90p Star Wars toy has sold for £15,590 at auction.
The Jawa figure is just 5.7cm (2.25 inch) tall.
It is still in its original box and has never been played with.
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It is one of as few as ten left worldwide.
It still has the original price sticker on it which if it was bought with cash was just 90p.
The toy therefore sold for £15,589 and 10p more when it went under the hammer.
The figure was made in 1978 by the now-defunct British toy company Palitoy based in Coalville, near Leicester.
The hammer price is 17,322 times more than the original shop price.
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With inflation taken into account 90p is now worth about £6.47 today.
But that is still 2,409 times more than it was priced at 46 years ago.
It also comes with a character card.
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The toy – aimed at kids aged four and over – also has a cape and laser gun.
Jawas were a sentient species of meter-tall furry humanoids native to the Outer Rim desert world of Tatooine.
They appeared in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope in 1977.
Sheppard’s Irish Auction House, in Durrow, south west of Dublin, Ireland, estimated it would fetch at least £15,165 (€18,000).
But it sold for fractionally more than that going for £15,590 (€18,500), as reported by What’s The Jam.
The listing read: “Vintage original carded figure with vinyl cape and laser gun.
“Two 1/4 inches, mint figure in bubble, on unpunched card, 12B back.
“Vintage retail price/cash price label.”
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