1926 Richfield Oil Company of California Gold Bond

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1926 Richfield Oil Company of California Gold Bond - Specimen

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This rare Richfield Oil Company of California Specimen Gold Bond is from 1926. Richfield Oil of California was founded in 1905 would later be known as Atlantic Refining Company, Atlantic Richfield Company and later renamed ARCO. The company had trouble during the Great Depression and was purchased by Cities (now Citgo). In the 1930s, the East Coast service stations were sold to Consolidated Oil Corp (now Sinclair). The remaining assets were later purchased by BP in 2000.

Rare piece.

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.