Rare first printing of US Constitution sells for record $43M

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A rare first printing of the U.S. Constitution has sold at Sotheby’s in New York for $43.2 million, a record price for a document or book sold at auction.

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The document offered for sale was one of 13 known copies of the first printing of the Constitution and one of only two in private hands. “Tonight’s sale of this exceptionally rare and important printing of the Constitution was a monumental and historic occasion," Selby Kiffer, Sotheby’s senior international specialist for books and manuscripts, said in a statement.

 

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Anyone seen Nick Cage lately?

Wow

Someone should read it to all of those in Congress and House.

Any chance we could get some of the GQP to actually read/understand it?

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