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Auction: 23144 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World - e-Auction - e-Auction
Lot: 310

Great Britain: Exchequer Bill, 1697, £5, paying one farthing per day interest, signed by Sir Robert Howard, small format with scrollwork at each side, black, embossed seal depicts portcullis. Issued £1,200,000 under Act of Parliament for funding King William's War or the War of the Grand Alliance, between France and an alliance between England, Spain, United Provinces and the Holy Roman Empire. The peace of Ryswick was signed in 1697. Sir Robert Howard, 1626-1698, best known as a playwright, he held many important positions after the Civil War including Secretary to the Treasury, Auditor of the Exchequer and Privy Councillor. Many endorsements on the reverse, folds but AVF and rare.

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