This is one of just 13 surviving copies of the official first printing of the United States Constitution — the founding legal document of the country, in its original published form.
The November 2021 Sotheby's auction became a genuine internet phenomenon when ConstitutionDAO, a crowdfunded crypto collective, raised over $40 million from more than 17,000 individual donors in a matter of days specifically to try to buy it.
They still lost — Citadel CEO Ken Griffin won the eight-minute bidding war at $43.2 million, the record price for any book, manuscript, or historical document ever sold.
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