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A Nashville man paid $2.48 for a rolled-up document at a thrift store in 2006; it proved to be a rare 1823 copy of the Declaration of Independence and sold at auction for $477,650 the following year
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A Nashville man paid $2.48 for a rolled-up document at a thrift store in 2006; it proved to be a rare 1823 copy of the Declaration of Independence and sold at auction for $477,650 the following year
A yellowed, rolled-up document bought for $2.48 at a Music City Thrift Store in Nashville sold for $477,650 at auction after it was confirmed as a very rare 1823 official copy of the United States Declaration of Independence. The document was bought in March 2006 by Michael Sparks, a music equipment technician, as reported by the Associated Press through WIS-TV.
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