Rare copy of US Constitution sold at auction – Telemundo New York (47)

A rare copy of the US Constitution that was printed 237 years ago sold for $9 million at an auction in North Carolina on Thursday.

The copy, sold by Brunk Auctionsstarted with an initial bid of $50,000, but it took just a few minutes to reach $9 million. There were 62 offers in total.

The document was printed in New York On September 28, 1787, just after the Constitutional Convention finished writing the Constitution, according to Brunk Auctions.

This copy is believed to be one of 100 printed by Secretary of State Charles Thomson. According to the auction house, there are only eight or nine copies left, seven of which are in public ownership.

Also sold in stock “The Journal of the North Carolina Convention at Hillsborough”, 1788 document detailing meetings delegates held for two weeks debating whether ratifying the Constitution would give the federal government too much power.

In 2021, one of the 14 copies of the Constitution printed for the Continental Congress and delegates to the Constitutional Convention was sold by Sotheby’s of New York for $43.2 million which was reported. The Associated Press.

This note was originally published in English on NBC.