Sotheby's Puts Rare U.S. Constitution Copy Up For Auction
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It's estimated to be worth as much as $20 million.
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.
"This is the final text. The debate on what the Constitution would say was over with this document. The debate about whether the Constitution was going to be adopted was just beginning," Selby Kiffer, an international senior specialist in Sotheby's Books and Manuscripts Department, told The Associated Press.
