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Harvard bought a Magna Carta copy for $27. It turned out to be an original from 1300.

Harvard Law School bought a 1327 copy of the Magna Carta from legal book dealer Sweet & Maxwell for $27.50 in 1946. Nearly eight decades later, two researchers have discovered it's actually an original version.

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Harvard thought it had a cheap copy of the Magna Carta. It turned out to be extremely rare

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Harvard paid $27 for a Magna Carta copy in 1946. It’s actually an original.

Harvard learns its copy of the Magna Carta is actually a rare original from 1300

Harvard University has for decades assumed it only had a copy of the Magna Carta in its collection.

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Harvard’s Magna Carta Copy Turns Out to Be an Original

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Harvard Law Paid $27 for a Copy of Magna Carta. Surprise! It’s an Original.

Cut-price Magna Carta 'copy' now believed genuine

A manuscript once considered an unofficial copy of Magna Carta is now believed to be a genuine version and ''one of the world's most valuable documents'', according to UK academics. Harvard Law School paid $27.50 (then about £7) for it in 1946 and for years it has remained tucked away in its library, its true identity unknown.

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Magna Carta ‘copy’ bought for $27.50 now believed to be genuine

The Harvard Magna Carta is thought to have been issued to the former parliamentary borough of Appleby in Westmorland, England. The Harvard Law School Library bought it in 1946 for $27.50 – about £20, and equivalent to about £700 today – according to the library’s accession register.