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Auction: 17017 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World
Lot: 142

Belgium: Keyserliche Indische Compagnie, option certificate, {1723], arms of the company at top, black on thick paper, black. The company was formed by Flemish businessmen and had a charter for 30 years trading to the East and West Indies. The shares were heavily oversubscribed and the company's initial trading was very successful, paying nearly twice the share capital in dividends in its first year. The major powers of Europe felt threatened by the company's success and it was forced into liquidation under the Treaty of Vienna of 1731. GVF.

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