Sotheby’s puts rare US Constitution
copy for auction
Posted By: Ribicon, 9/17/2021 9:02:03 PM
A very special document will be auctioned off later this year—a rare copy of the U.S. Constitution. Sotheby’s announced Friday—appropriately on Constitution Day—that in November it will put up for auction one of just 11 surviving copies of the Constitution from the official first printing produced for the delegates to the Constitutional Convention and for the Continental Congress. It’s the only copy that remains in private hands and has an estimate of $15 million-$20 million.(Snip)It is Kiffer’s second time handling the rare document. He also spearheaded its auction in 1988. Back then, it went for just $165,000.
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That's got to be worth what, 5 or 10 dollars now?