01-15-2020, 05:52 PM
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Stories about people finding historical documents often seem too good to be true but Michael Sparks' story is true. Sparks picked up what he thought was just a reproduction of the Declaration of Independence at a thrift store in Nashville, Tennessee back in 2006. He paid just $2.48 for the document and later found out it was one of 200 copies commissioned by John Quincy Adams in 1820. It was just the 36th copy found and it fetched a price of $477,650 when a Utah investment firm purchased it.
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