05-05-2026 18:57 via ARTnews.com

Billionaire Collector Ken Griffin Buys Second Rare Constitution Printing

ARTnews Top 200 collector Ken Griffin has quietly acquired another rare first printing of the US Constitution, bringing the total in his collection to two—the only copies still held in private hands, according to the New York Times. The billionaire Citadel founder first made headlines in 2021 when he paid $43.2 million at Sotheby’s for a copy of the 1787 document, outbidding the cryptocurrency collective Constitution DAO in one of the stranger bidding battles in recent
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