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Auction: 18021 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World Online Auction
Lot: 141

China/Macao: Tai Seng Opium Firm, Macao, share of 200 silver dollars, 1918, #2321, ornate border, text all in Chinese but English in the company seal, brown with green underprint. With typescript translation. The company was licensed to trade in opium for 5 years from 1918 to 1923 on payment of an annual licence fee of 6,676,000 dolars which seems an enormous figure even for a business that had been banned by European Governments. The company appear to have made some losses and repaid part of the capital only. VF and rare.

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£5,800