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Auction: 312 - Numismatic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 3315

Rice Oil Co (DE), 100 $1 shs, 1917, all but one signed by George G Rice as vice president, eagle on rock, orange, good VF-EF. George G Rice was no oil man; he was a stock promoter and confidence man who started out selling tips on horses; his big score came from capitalizing on the Goldfield mining craze, but he was ultimately convicted of mail fraud and wrote a colorful memoir in prison. [25]

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