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Citadel's Ken Griffin revealed as the winning bidder for a rare copy of the US Constitution, beating out a crowdfunded crypto collective
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Citadel CEO Ken Griffin bought a rare copy of the US constitution on Thursday in a Sotheby's bidding war that broke records, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal.
Griffin paid $43.2 million for the 234 year-old document, effectively outbidding a crowdfunding crypto collective called ConstitutionDAO that raised more than $40 million from 17,437 donors in less than a week.
The US Constitution that was up for auction at on Thursday is an official first-edition printed copy of the document. It is one of just 13 remaining copies that survived a 500-print run in 1787. The document is just one of two that remains in private hands, with all of the other copies owned by institutions.
If purchased by ConstitutionDAO,
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