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Abraham Lincoln-signed copy of Emancipation Proclamation fetches $2mln at auction | | A rare original copy of former U.S. President Abraham Lincoln's
Emancipation Proclamation, ordering the freeing of slaves, has been sold for over
two million dollars at a New York auction. David Rubenstein, managing director
of the Carlyle Group private equity, firm snapped upthe document issued in 1863.
The bidding took place at the Robert Siegel Auction Galleries, Manhattan . According
to The New York Daily News, it is the second-highest price ever paid for a Lincoln-signed
proclamation. Another copy of the proclamation owned by the late Senator Robert
Kennedy fetched 3.8 million dollars two years ago.
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