US Constitution Auctioned!

According to the visual correspondent of Fars News Agency, quoted by Washington Times، New York (AP) A very special document will be auctioned later this year – a rare copy of the US Constitution.

Sotheby’s on Friday On the occasion of Constitution Day, he announced that in November he would auction one of the remaining 11 copies of the Constitution from the first official edition to representatives of the Constitutional Convention and the Continental Congress. This is the only version left in the hands of the private sector, estimated at between $ 15 million and $ 20 million.

“The debate over the adoption of the constitution had just begun,” Selby Kiehfer, a senior international expert on Sotheby’s books and manuscripts, told the Associated Press. This is the last text. The debate over what the constitution says ended with this document.

Regarding the document created in the summer of 1787 in Philadelphia, he said: “It was a constitution, but it did not enter into force until it was debated and approved.” So this is the first step in our life under this 234-year-old document.

This document will be auctioned along with 80 constitutional and related documents. The constitutional version will be on display at Sotheby’s York Avenue until September 19, then travels to Los Angeles, Chicago and Dallas, then returns to New York this fall.

This is the second time that Kiehfer has published a rare document. He also led the auction in 1988. At the time, it sold for only $ 165,000.

He said the document either belonged to a member of the Continental Congress or a representative of the Continental Convention. They were the only people who had access to this first edition.

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