Emancipation Proclamation (Leland-Boker authorized edition, 2025 sale)
- Maker
- Abraham Lincoln
- Year
- 1864
- Rank
- 20 of 100
Emancipation Proclamation (Leland-Boker authorized edition, 2025 sale)
Emancipation Proclamation (Leland-Boker authorized edition, 2025 sale) by Abraham Lincoln (1864) is ranked 20 in the FLOAT 100 for Memorabilia. It sold for $4,400,000 on 26 June 2025. A signed copy of the document that began the legal end of American slavery; record for the Proclamation.
What is it, and why is it in the FLOAT 100?
A signed copy of the document that began the legal end of American slavery; record for the Proclamation.
Lincoln-signed Leland-Boker authorized edition of the Emancipation Proclamation
What is the best-sourced number for it?
- Figure
- $4,400,000
- Kind
- Realized at auction
- Date
- 26 June 2025
Sotheby's New York. $4.4M — a record for the Emancipation Proclamation. (Same sale's Lincoln-signed 13th Amendment made $13.7M to Ken Griffin.)
This is a realized sale. Somebody paid it. Source.
How this is made
- The figure
- One reference price, taken from a named public source and shown with its own kind. FLOAT does not average it with anything or adjust it for time.
- Realized or not
- A realized price is a completed sale. A market asking price and a price-guide value are not sales, and are labeled as such wherever they appear.
- Why no grade ladder
- Most FLOAT 100 entries are individual objects. There is one of this, so there is no population and no spread across grades to show.
- Archive
- 2026-08-08