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Auction: 17016 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World
Lot: 612

Maritime Canal Company of Nicaragua, certificate 2 Shares $100 each, New York 1897, #0669. The company was chartered by the United States government in 1889 to acquire the concession assigned to the Nicaragua Canal Association in 1887. The capital was 100 million dollars. Work on the canal started in 1889 and continued until 1893 when the company went into bankruptcy due to the collapse of the Panama Canal Company and Barings bank. EF.

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£150 to £200