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Auction: 312 - Numismatic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 2106

Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St Louis Rwy Co, $1000 4% gold bonds "Secured by first mortgage of the Cairo, Vincennes & Chicago Railway," passing train, gryphons in border, green, ABN, all coupons removed, VF and better. Formed by a merger in 1889, the CCC & St L, better known as the "big four" railroad, came to dominate the midwest, buying up smaller roads like the Cairo, Vincennes & Chicago; in 1906 it was bought out in turn by the New York Central. [99]

Estimate
$400 to $500