A rare copy of the U.S. Constitution forgotten inside a filing cabinet​ sold on Thursday for a $9 million hammer price, the auction house confirmed to CBS News.

A rare copy of the US Constitution that was found inside a filing cabinet sold for $9 million at auction this week. It took just seven minutes for the nearly 237-year-old document to clinch its hammer price, Andrew Brunk, the owner of Brunk Auctions, told CBS News.

A rare copy of the U.S. Constitution that was signed and sent to states to ratify is up for auction in North Carolina.

The document, which was sold to an anonymous bidder at an auction in North Carolina, was among the first copies of the Constitution ever printed, experts said.

It was printed after the Constitutional Convention finished drafting the proposed framework of the nation's government in 1787.

A rare copy of the U.S. Constitution found inside a filing cabinet in North Carolina sold Thursday for millions of dollars at an auction in the state. One bidder forked over more than $9 million for the founding document — which sold within seven minutes,

A rare, long-lost copy of the United States Constitution was found in a filing cabinet on a farm in North Carolina more than 200 years after it was drafted. The document is one of roughly 100 copies that were created on September 28,