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Auction: 312 - Numismatic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 2328

Peoria & Bureau Valley RR Co (IL), $100 shs, 1873-80, nine signed by Thomas C Durant as president, Native Americans watch Bison flee train, black, punch cancels affect signatures, some with paste stains left, overall good VF-VF+. Thomas C Durant (1820-85) was one of the most ruthless and shrewd figures in American financial history, manipulating the stock market, the government, and his own Union Pacific Railroad to increase his personal fortune; luck caught up with him and he lost a bundle in the Panic of 1873, spending the rest of his life embroiled in lawsuits with former partners. [24]

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