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The Greenville & Columbia Railroad Co (114491)

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Stock & Bond - Transportation Start Price:40.00 USD Estimated At:80.00 - 120.00 USD
The Greenville & Columbia Railroad Co  (114491)
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75.00USD+ (18.75) buyer's premium + applicable fees & taxes.
This item SOLD at 2020 Apr 17 @ 16:50UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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chartered in 1845 and completed in 1854. It was a main feeder into Columbia from the South Carolina Piedmont for the Confederacy during the Civil War. After the war, politicians defrauded the state of South Carolina out of $400,000 in a failed investment in the troubled Greenville & Columbia Railroad Co. The loss was equal to a quarter of the state's revenues for that year. As a result of the failed investment, the State adopted a constitutional ban on investing public money in stocks. #194, I/U, 5 shares @ $20 par issued March25, 1853. Black, embossed seal, Black, vignettes: top under wavy title train w/cars r-l, left side center state seal, top left John O'Neal, unknown man bottom left. Rawdon, Wright, Hatch & Edison printer. VF

Provenance: Ken Prag Collection
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State: South Carolina
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Date: 1853