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His 7 dollar book just sold for 80 thousand dollars
A soldier in Indiana paid 7 dollars for a copy of The Federalist at a flea market when he was a teenager. He just sold this rare copy for 80 thousand dollars on an online auction. Wow! Flea markets, yard sales, auctions, you just never know.
It isn’t even a complete set. It is the first part of a 2 volume 1788 book of essays that called for ratifying our U.S. Constitution.
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By Alice
June 17, 2009 11:24 AM | Link to this
The experts only expected it to get somewhere around 20k, he was wishing for 100k - I am glad that he got as much as he did!