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Auction: 312 - Numismatic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 2370

Rapid Transit Subway Construction (NY), 1000 $100 shs, 1900, #26, signed by August Belmont Jr. as president, NY state arms, train and ship in background, brown, punch cancels affect the signature, R178, pen cancelled across the face, VF. August Belmont Jr (1853-1924) founded this company to build New York´s first regular subway line, the Interborough Rapid Transit Co; it still operates as one of the main components of the city´s now consolidated subway system.

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