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Auction: 9027 - Bonds & Shares of the World
Lot: 262

A group of 10 Anglo-Hungarian Bank, 100 florin shares, Budapest 1875, black, brown underprint, text in English, Hungarian and German, with coupons, nearly extremely fine. The Anglo-Hungarian Bank, was founded in 1868 by a consortium of Austrian and British capitalists with local Hungarian investors. Despite a board bristling with illustrious names such as Prince Sapieha, Count Szechenyi and Budapest´s leading private banker, Maurice Wahrmann, the bank made a number of poor investments and was wound up in 1879. (10) Estimate £ 150

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£120