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Auction: 314 - Numismatic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 1182

New Jersey Junction RR Co (NY), $1000 4% gold bond, #1584, guaranteed by the NY Central & Hudson River RR, signed Josiah H. Reed as president, and by John Pierpont Morgan and HC Fahenstock on trustee certificate on verso, ships on the Hudson, brown, 16 coupons present, POCs, folds, else 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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