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Auction: 320 - The Numismatic Collector's Series Sale and the Forest Park Collection
Lot: 1733

State of Mississippi, 'Mississippi Union Bank' 5% Loan, bond for $2000, 1838, no.928, allegorical females at top, American eagle to left and right, steam boat at bottom, black, pink seal, with coupons, AEF.

The default of this loan, supported by Jefferson Davis, later President of the Confederate States, caused a serious political problem between Britain and the United States.

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