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Auction: 313 - Numismatic Collector's Series - Ft. Worth, TX
Lot: 1956

Flint-Steel River Mining Co (MI), $25 shs, 1865, #997, Industry and Commerce between train and ship, black on blue paper, "consolidated stock" handstamp, revenue stamp at left, uncanceled, minor fold wear, pinholes, about VF+. This company operated copper mines in Ontonagon County, MI, and produced over 850,000 lbs of the metal before going idle in 1881; adventurous spelunkers and amateur geologists still make forays into this company´s mines for specimens of copper and silver.

Estimate
$3,000 to $4,000