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Auction: 23145 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World - e-Auction
Lot: 223

(x) Cuba: National Hotel of Cuba Corporation, a specimen 30-Year 6% income debenture for $1000, 1929, numbered 00000, allegorical female reclining at top, ornate border, orange and black, printed by the American Bank Note Co., lacks coupons. This large Hotel in Havana was designed by New York architects McKim, Mead & White and opened in 1930. It was the scene of a battle in 1933 now known as the Battle of the Hotel Nacional of Cuba. Sold in 1943 to become part of the Kirkeby Hotel chain. Sold again in 1955 to the newly formed Corporacion Intercontinental de Hoteles, S.A.. The hotel still exists. Trifolded otherwise EF.

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