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Sacramento,CA - 1859 - City & County Bond :

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Stock & Bond - Certificates Start Price:100.00 USD Estimated At:200.00 - 400.00 USD
Sacramento,CA - 1859 - City & County Bond :
"Bond of the City and County of Sacramento, State of California." Stamped on reverse: "Issued, Jan'y 1st, 1859. Due, February 1st, 1893." Bond No. 302, for $1000. Approved April 24, AD 1858. Signed by H.S. Nichols as President of the Board of Supervisors and Joe Dayton as Clerk of the Board of Supervisors. Several vignettes, including: stately building (courthouse or legislative house) at center top, a Native-American overlooking a railroad at the top left, and a miner with a gold pan on a cliff overlooking a coastline. Smaller vignettes at the lower right include an allegorical sitting on a seashore overlooking several ocean going vessels, while on the left is a paddle steamer. Measures 15" x 16" which includes coupons numbered 16-35 attached Signed on reverse by Mary Miller, City and County Treasurer. "County Funded. 1859." in green underprint. "Redeemed April 23, 1874, John Bellmer, Co. Treas." handwritten vertically along front face. Lith. of Britton & Co. San Francisco. Each coupon signed by Mory (?) Miller, Treasurer.