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Auction: 9014 - Bond & Share Certificates of the World
Lot: 566

English Bank of the River Plate Ltd., pair of certificates for £20 shares, first issue, 188(8), brown, and second issue, 188(9), red, printed by Bradbury, Wilkinson & Co., the second with punch holes at left, otherwise very fine. Failed in the general banking crisis of 1890 following the over investment in the region but reconstructed as the New English Bank of the River Plate Ltd. in the following year. Barings Bank was also brought down in 1890 by its over exposure to Argentine loans but was rescued by the Bank of England. (2) Estimate £ 80-100

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