an hour agoThe original copy of the Constitution of America is sold for $43 million, the unknown buyer
Periskopi(5 years ago)
(5 years ago)A rare copy of the U.S. Constitution has been sold at auction for $43.2m, record numbers, to an unknown buyer. The document, one of the thirteen original copies from 1787, was sold for three times as much as it had been valued, and 260 times as it had managed to collect in [...]
The document, one of the thirteen original copies from 1787, was sold for three times as much as it had been valued, and 260 times more than it had managed to collect at the 1988 auction, which was $155.
The buyers' identity was not revealed, but they were racing against “ConstitutionDAO”, which offered 47 million or 11,600 of the ether cryptovalut, reports Guardian, renders Periscope.
David Brigham, chief executive of the Pennsylvania Historical Society, who has one of 13 copies of the Constitution, said: “Monetary value is what the market says is, but this auction and the interest to reflect something deeper about the inner value of the U.S. Constitution and the fact that it remains a force that keeps the nation united. ”
