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Anglo-French Five-Year 5% External Loan, 1915 Specimen Coupon Bearer Bond Trio Issued for Borrowing

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Anglo-French Five-Year 5% External Loan, 1915 Specimen Coupon Bearer Bond Trio Issued for Borrowing
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United States, United Kingdom and France, 1915, Lot of 3 Specimen Anglo-French Five-Year 5% External Loan bonds, all with attached coupons, Includes: $100 in orange; $500 in brown; $1000 in green. All have John Bradbury's facsimile signature on the lower left, All with allegorical justice holding scales in middle flanked by Arms for France and Supported Arms of England, All have red specimen overprints, 00000 serial numbers, POCs. Fine condition, ABNC. The Anglo-French Financial Commission was a special delegation to the United States from the governments of the United Kingdom and France in 1915 during the First World War. The Commission, led by Lord Reading, secured the single largest loan from private US banks prior to American entry into World War I in 1917. In September 1915 France and the United Kingdom signed an agreement to establish the Inter-Allied Munitions Bureau, which was to coordinate purchasing in all neutral countries, principally the United States. In May 1916 the British had to take over the financing of French purchases in the United States as a result of the weakness of the French wartime economy. Historic bond trio which heralded the eventual participation of the U.S. to enter World War I. (3)