An extremely rare original copy of the US constitution was sold Thursday for $43 million — a world record for a historical document at auction, Sotheby’s said.
It is one of only 11 known surviving copies of the US charter, signed on September 17, 1787 at Philadelphia’s Independence Hall by America’s founding fathers, including George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and James Madison and ratified the following year. The winning bidder was not immediately identified.
A group of cryptocurrency investors had raised $40 million to buy the document but failed to secure the document, this consortium said.—AP
