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Auction: 313 - Numismatic Collector's Series - Ft. Worth, TX
Lot: 1534

Texian Loan, $32 8% five-year loan, Cr. 36A4, 1836, #99, "the First Installment on a Loan of Three Hundred and Twenty Dollars," payable in land at 2 acres per dollar, signed by Stephen F Austin BT Archer, and WH Wharton as commissioners, ornate border, black, matted with a printed portrait of Austin and a biographical plaque, cut cancels including loss of triangle at center, fold wear, VF+. Stephen F Austin (1793-1836) had personally driven American settlement into what had been Mexican Texas, providing a state constitution similar to that of the United States. Though he had opposed taking a hard line against Mexican authorities, Austin helped lead troops in the war for independence that had begun in late 1835, and which the present bond helped finance. Independence was declared in March 1836, and won the following month at the Battle of San Jacinto. Austin would live just long enough to see the United States recognize the Republic of Texas, dying of pneumonia in December 1836.

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