Sotheby's is auctioning off an extremely rare and historic first-edition printing of the U.S. Constitution, and crypto investors are pooling millions …
This DAO Wants to Buy Rare Copy of the U.S. Constitution
One of the only 12 first-edition prints of the U.S. Constitution is set to go up for auction on Thursday and is estimated to be worth between $15 million to $20 million. A decentralized organization called ConstitutionDAO is actively raising funds to bid on the historic document, with at least $3 million raised so far. Should the DAO win the auction, each contributor would fractionally own part of the text and the document would be housed in a yet undetermined museum.
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CNN — An exceptionally rare first-edition printed copy of the US Constitution fetched $43.2 million in New York on Thursday, becoming the most expensive historical document ever to sell at auction. The sale also smashed the auction record for a book, manuscript or printed text, said Sotheby’s, which …
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