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Harvard cut-price Magna Carta 'copy' now believed genuine

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Harvard Law School paid $ 27.50 (then about 7 ) for it in 1946 .

It has remained tucked away in its library for years , its true identity unknown.

But two medieval history professors have concluded it is an extraordinarily rare and lost original Magna Carta from 1300 , in the reign of King Edward I, that could be worth millions .

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