Minty. Crisp no rips stains bends holes, light age.Will ship in medium priority box fully insured.

No punch holes. No blue or red markings of cancellation. Fold line. Pencil writing in margin of cover title column.

No C 80218, 80219

These are German Government International 5 1/2% Loan 1930 USD 1000 face value GOLD BOND due June 1, 1965. Principal and interest payable at the office of

J.P. Morgan & Co in the Borough of Manhattan City of New York

Pg 1 very fine print explains: makes frequent mention of the Hague Agreement, lists parties and individuals (sovereign countries, republics, Emperor of Japan etc)....3rd column right :

\"XI PURSUANT to the Hague Agreement the annual direct tax of Six Hundred and Sixty Million Reichsmarks payable to the German Government by the German Railway Company shall be and remain constituted as collateral guarantee as.....

Remaining attached coupons: June 1945...June 1965 (so June 1930 through December 1944 have been detached)

(Historical value, well preserved value - I checked with both JPM & DB Securities - intrinsic value gone)

DR was founded when theWeimar Republic, formally known asDeutsches Reich(German Reich, hence the usage of theReichin the name of the railway), took national control of the German railways, which had previously been run by the German states. In 1924 it was reorganised under the aegis of theDeutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft(DRG), a nominally private railway company, which was 100% owned by the German state. In 1937 the railway was reorganised again as a state authority and given the nameDeutsche Reichsbahn(DRB).