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Auction: 313 - Numismatic Collector's Series - Ft. Worth, TX
Lot: 1702

New Jersey Junction RR Co (NY), $1000 4% gold bond, guaranteed by the NY Central & Hudson River RR, signed at trustee certificate by John Pierpont Morgan and HC Fahenstock, ships on the hudson, brown, matted with (separated) trustee certificate, portrait of Morgan, coupon sample, and biographical plaque, VF+. John Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) became one of the richest men in the United States with shrewdly managed investments in railroads, steel, and gold; his economic power was such that his personal intervention helped end the Panic of 1907.

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