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Auction: 22142 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World - e-Auction
Lot: 306

Spain: Real Compania de Comercio Establecida en Barcelona, 250 peso share #1296, 1758, probably the best known and most attractive of the early Spanish trading companies sporting a panoramic vignette of Barcelona Harbour and the Virgin of Montserrat and more, black, on vellum, ornate seal which is intact. The company was granted a monopoly of trade to Santo Domingo, Puerto Rico and Margarita Island (off the coast of Venezuela). Sales of shares were disappointing and the company was unable to expand as it had hoped. Given the right to trade into Buenos Aires in 1771. Taken over by the Real Compañia de Filipinas in 1785. Seal virtually intact but fragile, VF and scarce.

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