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This scarce Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of Maryland Specimen $10,000 Bond Certificate is from 1955. The vignette features Charles Carroll of Carrollton - signer of the Declaration of Independence. Founded in 1884 as the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of Baltimore City they are now commonly known as C&P Telephone. They provide service to Maryland, Washington D.C., West Virginia and Virginia. They were part of the Bell System that was broken up in 1984 and became part of Bell Atlantic. After their merger with GTE, they became Verizon Communications and the C&P companies became, Verizon Maryland, Verizon Virginia, Verizon Washington D.C. and Verizon West Virginia.
About Specimens:
Specimen stock certificates are certificates that were archived by printers and the company as perfect examples of the company’s stock issue. Specimen’s can be identified by their “specimen” stamp, stamped holes spelling “specimen”, or they are often issued with a serial number of a series of zeros. Often, they are also issued with no serial number at all. Specimens can also represent a design that was never issued. All of these attributes make the specimen stock certificate rarer than the issued version of the share. Many enthusiasts collect specimens as a whole new category of Scripophily.
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