The Southern New England Telephone Company Specimen Stock Certificate

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This rare The Southern New England Telephone Company Specimen Stock Certificate is from 1982. Founded as the District Telephone Company of New Haven in 1878, it operated the worlds first telephone exchange and issued the world's first telephone book. While part of the Bell System, they were considered independent because AT&T only held a minority stake. They were purchased by SBC communications (now AT&T) in 1998 and are now known as AT&T Connecticut.

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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.