A crowd-funded group lost an auction for a first edition of the U.S. Constitution

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An unprecedented crowd-funded attempt to buy an extremely rare copy of the U.S. Constitution fell just short Thursday night, when a group of more than 17,000 people who had pooled their money were outbid in an auction for the historical document.

The Constitution sold for $43.2 million, setting a new record for the most ever paid for a book, historical document, or printed text, according to Sotheby's, which handled the sale. The winning bid more than doubled the top estimate of $20 million the Constitution had been expected to garner.