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Certificate for a share in Kennet and Avon Canal Navigation, Great Britain, 1808. In corporate law, a stock certificate (also known as certificate of stock or share certificate) is a legal document that certifies the legal interest (a bundle of several legal rights) of ownership of a specific number of shares (or, under Article 8 of the Uniform Commercial Code in the United States, a ...
Scripophily is the study and collection of stock and bond certificates. [a] A specialized field of numismatics, scripophily has developed as an area of collecting because of the inherent beauty of certain historical certificates, and because of interest in the historical context of many of the documents.
Old stock certificates from companies that no longer exist can also be a novelty item for collectors. While those certificates may yield no ownership value, they can have value as an antique or ...
There are three principal ways of holding securities: Stock certificate Before the use of electronic technology, all shares were held in certificated form, either . as registered shares, where the company maintained a register of owners of shares as well as issuing share certificates, and changes of ownership were registered, or
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One of the oldest known stock certificates, issued by the VOC chamber of Enkhuizen, dated 9 Sep 1606 [6] Finding the earliest joint-stock company is a matter of definition. An early form of joint-stock company was the medieval commenda, although it was usually employed for a single commercial expedition.
A 1923 Green Bay Packers stock certificate, as displayed at the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame. There have been six stock issues over the history of the Packers organization: 1923: Shares of stock were first sold to establish the club as a corporation. [3] A total of $5,000 was raised through the sale of 1,000 shares at $5 apiece.