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Auction: 17017 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World
Lot: 159

(x) France: Caisse D'Epargnes de Bienfaisance, 90 livres share, 179[3], #20097/20106, seal at bottom, black. A Savings Bank formed by Joachim Lafarge, who signs the document, in 1791. Subscribers would gain an annuity until their deaths and the Society attracted huge sums however the mortality rate was very small and funds were not available to make payments so the society was wound up in 1808. GVF and scarce.

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Estimate
£120 to £150