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(CNN) --
An unopened first-generation iPhone from 2007 is going up for auction this Thursday, and could fetch an estimated value of $50,000.
Originally on sale for $599, the first iPhone offered Apple's early adopters a 3.5-inch display with a 2-megapixel camera, plus 4GB and 8GB storage, Internet, and iTunes options.
It had no app store, ran on 2G, and was exclusive to the AT&T network.
Artist and tattoo artist Karen Green received the 8GB version and never broke the sealed box, she said in an appearance on the daytime TV show "The Doctor & The Diva" in 2019. An appraiser for the show valued the phone at $10. 5,000 at the time.
Since then, another unopened first-generation iPhone like Green's has been auctioned for more than $39,000 on an LCG Auctions listing that closed in October.
LCG Auctions is also listing Green's phone, with a starting bid of $2,500.
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Green and LCG Auctions did not respond to CNN's request for comment.
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The iPhone changed the way billions of people around the world communicate, make payments, do work, take photos, and even wake up in the morning.
It also dethroned dozens of other industries (like camcorders, MP3 players, flip phones), and spawned many more.
During Apple's annual Macworld expo in 2007, then-Apple boss Steve Jobs opened his presentation by saying, "Today we're going to make some history together."
Jobs called the new smartphone a "revolutionary mobile phone," and that it included an iPod, a telephone and what he called an "Internet communicator."
Steve Jobs presents the iPhone on January 9, 2007. (Credit: TONY AVELAR/AFP/Getty Images)
“Today they don't work well,” Jobs said of mobile Web browsers.
"It's a real revolution to bring real web browsing to a phone."
Apple enthusiasts will have until February 19 to bid on the tech relic.
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