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Auction: 321 - The Numismatic Collector's Series Sale and Stocks and Bonds of the Americas
Lot: 1221

Northern Pacific Railroad Company, certificate for 10 shares of $100, 187[6], #B1307, issued to and signed on reverse by Jay Cooke as Trustee, lovely piece with vignette of steam train at top, Frederick Billings at bottom, blue and black, hole and stamp cancelled, GVF

Jay Cooke (1821-1905), founder of Jay Cooke & Company, the banking house which financed the construction of the Northern Pacific Railroad.

Sold for
$450