NYNEX Corporation Specimen Stock Certificate

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NYNEX Corporation Specimen Stock Certificate - AT&T Baby Bell

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Vintage Stock Certificate

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This rare NYNEX Stock Specimen Stock Certificate was printed by the American Bank Note Company. The vignette also features the World Trade Center.

In 1984 NYNEX was spun off of AT&T as part of the antitrust case and was one of the original "Baby Bells". NYNEX stands for New York New England, it was the Baby Bell that serviced those areas. NYNEX merged with Bell Atlantic in 1997 and is now part of Verizon.

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.