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Auction: SW1008 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World
Lot: 204

Bagdadbahn. 4% Obligation über 408 Reichsmark oder £20 oder 500 Francs oder 22 türkische Pfund. Constantinople, 31. Januar 1909. Grün/violett. Nr. 81284. The Baghdad Railway was built from 1903 to 1940 to connect Berlin with the Ottoman Empire city of Baghdad, where the Germans wanted to establish a port in the Persian Gulf, with a 1,600 kilometers line through modern-day Turkey, Syria, and Iraq. Funding and engineering was mainly provided by German Empire banks and companies. VF.

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