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Auction: 319 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the Americas
Lot: 3005

State of Alabama, 8% $1000 bond, 1872, #231, signed by the Governor, Robert Lindsay, large format, State seal top right with ship and train in background, black text with $1000 orange underprint centre, with coupons, scarce, minor ink marks otherwise VF.

Robert Lindsay, the first Democratic governor following the Civil War, was born in Scotland. He succeeded in curtailing the activities of the Klu Klux Klan but was drawn into financial problems of the Alabama & Chattanooga Railroad.

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