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**Harvard learned it has an authentic Magna Carta. In 1946, it paid less than $28 for it**

“_It was a remarkable find not only for Carpenter, but for Harvard — especially since the university had paid a London bookseller just $27.50 (about $460 adjusted for inflation) for the document in 1946. An authentic Magna Carta sold in 2007 for $21.3 million._”

🔗 npr.org/2025/05/15/nx-s1-53991.

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