Agency Report
An extremely rare original copy of the US Constitution sold Thursday for $43 million — a world record for a historical document at auction — with a cryptocurrency consortium that coveted the text outbid by another investor.
Sotheby’s auction house, which staged the sale, said the item was one of only 13 known surviving copies of the US charter, signed on September 17, 1787 at Philadelphia’s Independence Hall by America’s founding fathers including George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and James Madison.
The winning bidder was not immediately identified.
A group of cryptocurrency investors had raised $40 million to try to buy the document but failed to secure the prize, the consortium said.
