Auction: 321 - The Numismatic Collector's Series Sale and Stocks and Bonds of the Americas
Lot: 1177
Mississippi and Missouri Railroad Company, (MS & MO). $100 shares, 1856, Certificate No. 1, issued to Durant, Lathrop & Company, railroad bridge, Indians on horseback below, IC, signed by John A. Dix as President, stub pasted over left border, otherwise VF+.
Dix was a U. S. Senator, Secretary of the Treasury under Buchanan, Governor of New York, Union General during the draft riots, and President of the Union Pacific Railroad, which was controlled by Thomas Durant.
Sold for
$90