CNN —A rare reward poster seeking the capture of the men responsible for President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination has sold at auction for $166,375.
The poster, printed on April 20, 1865, advertises a total of $100,000 in rewards for the capture of John Wilkes Booth and his accomplices.
Booth fatally shot Lincoln on April 14, 1865, at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, DC.
Bidding for the document started at $100,000, according to a news release from Nate D. Sanders Auctions, which sold the poster on Thursday.
The piece is from the first printing of the poster and is the rarest of three different poster designs released by the War Department, says the auction house.