The Most Expensive: Shares and Bonds
01_Boone20180414_Assiente_50PctRedCompagnie Royale de L’Assiente, 3000 Livres share, 1704.
€26,000 (without buyer’s premium). Boone Auction, 14 April 2018. Courtesy: Mario Boone.
02MostValuableScripophilyIn2019_3_VOC_bondVereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie (VOC, Dutch East India Company), 6.5% bond over 500 Flemish Pounds. Unnumbered and pen cancelled, measures about 32 x 21 cm, printed on handmade paper and issued, with signatures, on 25 April 1623. €46,000 (without buyer’s premium). Historisches Wertpapierhaus 52nd Auction, 4 May 2019. Courtesy: HWPH – Historisches Wertpapierhaus AG.
00-L467 Indes OrientalesAnleihe der Compagnie des Indes Orientales, 1665.
€120,000 (without buyer’s premium). Booneshares, 16 October 2021, Antwerp. Photo: Booneshares.
Every year Franky Leeuwerck and other passionate scripophilists monitor auctions with bonds and shares, calculate the results and find the top lot of the year. Franky Leeuwerck sends us every year a more detailed article on each of these top lot items. To learn more about the story behind these shares and bonds, and why they achieved these sums, read his thrilling stories:
- 1: Top Lot 2018
- 2: Top Lot 2019
- 3: Top Lot 2020
- 4: Top Lot 2021
If you are interested in more news from the world of scripophily, go to Franky Leeuwerck’s blog Franky’s Scripophily BlogSpot.
