Magna Carta Sells for $21.3 Million
Hervé | December 19, 2007The Ross Perot Foundation’s copy of the Magna Carta, dated 1297, sold tonight at Sotheby’s for $21.3 million, barely hitting the presale estimates of $20-30 million.AFP reports that the document was “picked up by a telephone bidder.”[Slightly later: Reuters adds that the buyer was private equity fi






