Fees, funds reserved for transportion, safety, storage, etc. You can't just buy an original copy of the US Constitution, stick it in your carry-on, and drop it

Fees, funds reserved for transportion, safety, storage, etc. You can't just buy an original copy of the US Constitution, stick it in your carry-on, and drop it off at the local museum. From their Discord announcement: > @everyone Lots of questions coming up about why we stopped the bidding where we did. The proper care and maintenance of the Constitution requires a reserve that is needed to insure, store, and transport the document, and we calculated the absolute max we could go to while still meeting these requirements. The opposing bidder passed that max, and we were unable to go any higher while still ensuring that we could properly care for the document. Additionally Sotheby's takes a cut of every auction sale with their fees, and this amount had to be accounted for as well.