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Auction: 15019 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World
Lot: 260

I. G. Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft, Frankfurt am Main, 200 Reichsmark share, December 1925, green (21); 100 Reichsmark share, September 1926, red and black (15); 1000 Reichsmark share, March 1940, blue and black (17); all with ornate border showing company logos, generally good very fine to extremely fine. (53)

A famous amalgamation of 9 businesses (some of their logos shown in the border) in the chemical industry including Friedrich Bayer & Co and BASF. It became infamous as one affiliated company (Degesch) produced "Zyklon B", a cyanide-based pesticide being used by Nazi Germany during the Holocaust to murder a million people in gas chambers in extermination camps like Auschwitz-Birkenau. The current main successor companies are Agfa(-Gevaert), BASF, Bayer and Sanofi.

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Estimate
£150 to £200