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Rare copy of US Constitution sells for $9M at auction

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73% Informative

The copy was printed after the Constitutional Convention finished drafting the proposed framework of the nation's government in 1787 .

It's one of about 100 copies printed by the secretary of that Congress , Charles Thomson .

Bidding took just over seven minutes , with bids coming in at $ 500,000 intervals, mostly over the phone.

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English

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