An extremely rare German four-rotor M4 Enigma cipher machine from the Second World War has set a new world auction record at a Christie's sale at Rockefeller Center in New York. The property of an American collector, it sold at for US$547,500, topping the previous record for a fully operational Enigma M4 used by the German U-boat forces during the war of US$463,500.
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