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And now, chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher.

So the auction that was initially scheduled for the end of September was delayed due to the damage caused by Hurricane Helene in North Carolina,

happened yesterday by brunk auctions. A copy of the up here at the Mercury Studios, you never know. The studios that this show

originates from. It was printed in 1787 after the Constitutional

Convention drafted the framework of the nation's government.

It was one of about a hundred copies printed by Charles Thompson, the Secretary of Congress

under the Articles of Confederation.

Only eight copies are known to exist today, seven owned by public institutions.

So the bidding for the Constitution copy took about seven minutes. and the bids came in at $50,000 increments and there was a

brief pause at 8.5 million dollars and the auctioneer was like

We need a little bit more than this so I'm not sure what's going on here

That's that's a I believe that's a quote and so he got it up to $9 million so it

sold for $9 million. It's incredible how they found it too. They found it a couple years ago. They were

cleaning out the house once owned by Samuel Johnston, former North Carolina

governor and it was being restored and they were in an old office room and they

were hauling junk out and somebody opened up a metal cabinet and went hey I

wonder what this is, take a look.

Yeah, it was a copy of the Constitution.

Incredible.

Nine million bucks, also sold at this auction,

was a first draft of the Articles of Confederation,

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