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Auction: 313 - Numismatic Collector's Series - Ft. Worth, TX
Lot: 1827

Philadelphia & Lancaster Turnpike Road (PA), One share, 1795, #173, signed by William Bingham as president, choice vignette of Conestoga wagon approaching toll gate (the first known copperplate engraving on a private stock certificate!), embossed seal, folds, soiling at left, about VF+. Financier and statesman William Bingham (1752-1804) was US Senator from Pennsylvania and led the Senate during John Adams´s administration; he developed the area astride Pennsylvania´s northern border, including what would become the city of Binghamton, NY. The Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike, opened in 1795, was the nation´s first engineered long-distance road.

Estimate
$1,000 to $1,500