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Carson City Savings Bank Stock Certificate Issued to Jacob Klein [160333]

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Carson City Savings Bank Stock Certificate Issued to Jacob Klein  [160333]
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This item SOLD at 2023 Oct 22 @ 16:28UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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Stock no. 27, issued in 1877 to Jacob Klein. Signed by president George Tufly and cashier George Hill. Not cancelled. Gilt design with eagle vignette. Stubs attached. Very rare in issued form. Incorp. 1875. Need for banking in Carson City, NV after opening of US Mint in 1869. Renamed Bullion and Exchange Bank in 1882. Following decline in mining and reductions in development, bank was restructured into the State Bank and Trust Co in 1903. Failed by 1907. Printed: Krebs Lithographing Co. Cincinnati. Klein served as president of The Bullion & Exchange Bank. The bank served as a clearing house for other banks in Nevada for bullion, coin, scrip, drafts, checks, bills of exchange and other valuables. The bank had branches in Hawthorne, Tonopah, Goldfield and Manhattan, Nevada, with the central office in Carson City. After 1893, the Carson branch had an office in the US Mint in Carson, controlling the mint's refinery operations. This partnership between the unregulated bank and the mint raised quite a few eyebrows, culminating in a scandal in 1894. The mint's Chief Melter, Hirsch Harris, noticed that the gold in the silver bullion bars had been replaced by copper. An investigation was launched that found that, dating back to 1892, $75,000 in gold had gone missing. Bank president Jacob Klein was linked to the scandal by his support of convicted Mint employees and had to leave office, allowing Henry Gorham to take charge. Klein also co-founded the Carson Brewery with John Wagner and August Berhauser, Nevada's first and longest operating brewery (1860-1948). Nevada Carson City 1877