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Auction: 17016 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World
Lot: 84

Euphrates Valley Railway Co. Ltd., scrip certificate for five shares of £20 each, 185[6], #45916-45920, scrollwork at left, black. Formed to build a Railway from Anah along the Euphrates Valley to the Persian Gulf, providing an overland route to India. The scheme was well supported by Parliament, but the line never came to fruition. Pinholes top left, otherwise GVF and rare.

Another example sold at £900 in these rooms in 2009.

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Sold for
£280