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Auction: 15018 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World
Lot: 84

Chinese Imperial Government, 1896 5% Gold Loan, unissued bond for £25, countersigned by Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, large format piece, blue with multicoloured underprint, with full coupons sheet, minor creasing in lower left margin with light foxing, extremely fine and extremely rare.

The second and last of this denomination discovered last year, the first selling at £1500 in our November sale. The group of unissued bonds were all to be countersigned by the Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation and were kept in the banking office for many years but disposed of some years ago and retained by the original vendor's family who did not realise their importance. Only one example of the £50 and two of the £100 bonds were discovered (all sold last November at auction and privately) and none of the £500 denomination.

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Sold for
£2,100