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Auction: 9027 - Bonds & Shares of the World
Lot: 342

Exchequer Bill, 1697, £5, paying one farthing per day interest, signed by Sir Robert Howard, small format with scrollwork at each side, black, embossed seal depicts portcullis, 3 heavy folds and laid down on backing sheet, ink cancellation on face, fine and rare. Issued £1,200,000 under Act of Parliament for funding the present war. Estimate £ 400 Sir Robert Howard (1626-1698), dramatist, playwright and politician, son of Thomas, 1st Earl of Berkshire. Member of Parliament, Secretary to the Treasury in 1671, auditor of the Exchequer in 1673 and Privy Councillor in 1689.

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£300