
Rare copy of US Constitution collecting dust in North Carolina filing cabinet sells for $9M at auction
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A 237-year-old copy of the U.S. Constitution sold at auction this week for $9 million, two years after it was found collecting dust inside a filing cabinet in a North Carolina home.
The home in Edenton, North Carolina, had once been owned by Samuel Johnston, the state’s governor from 1787 to 1789, and was being cleared out. It's not clear how it ended up in the cabinet in the first place.
Thomson printed about 100 copies of the Constitution during the Continental Congress’ existence, and only eight are known to still exist, seven of them in public ownership.
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