Magna Carta Sells For $21.3 Million At Auction

December 19, 2007 | Posted by Allison as Auctions at 8:00 am |

magna-carta-auctioin.jpgBeing only one of 17 copies of the historical document, the Magna Carta, insured that a recent New York auction would end in high numbers & sweaty bidders.

Only last night did the gentleman David Rubenstein from the privately owned Carlyle Group pick up a copy of the 710-years-old Magna Carta, for just $21.3 million.  The declaration of human rights was sold at Soetheby’s & bears the seal of King Edward I, which is dated 1297.  The document was previously owned by the (Ross) Perot Foundation who purchased the copy in the early 1980s for $1.5 million.  Talk about an investment!

4 Comments »

  1. Hyitzhak » Magna Carta Sells For $21.3 Million At Auction Said,

    December 19, 2007 @ 9:22 am

    [...] Original post by Allison [...]

  2. sdg Said,

    December 19, 2007 @ 10:49 am

    dfhdfh

  3. DJ Inphinity Said,

    December 19, 2007 @ 11:12 am

    very expensive piece…

  4. Insurance » Magna Carta Sells For $21.3 Million At Auction Said,

    December 19, 2007 @ 12:47 pm

    [...] Here’s another interesting post I read today by Allison [...]

RSS feed for comments on this post · TrackBack URI

Leave a Comment