Overview

• The auction will be held on September 28 in Asheville, North Carolina, with a starting bid of $1 million.
• This copy was printed after the Constitutional Convention and is the only known one in private hands.
• The document was found in a neglected room of a house once owned by North Carolina's former governor Samuel Johnston.
• It includes a letter from George Washington urging ratification, emphasizing the need for compromise.
• The last similar document sold in 1891 for $400; another Constitution copy sold in 2021 for $43.2 million.