Bidding for rare 'Exeter Broadside' of Declaration of Independence tops $1M

A rare original copy of the Declaration of Independence is attracting bids over $1M at the Goldin auction house during America’s 250th birthday celebrations. Simultaneously, another rare 1776 copy was discovered in UK archives, where it remained hidden among Royal Navy documents for centuries. These findings highlight the emergence of significant historical artifacts, with one entering the high-value auction market and the other being recovered from long-term archival storage in the United Kingdom.