The Michigan Bell Telephone Company Specimen Bond

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Product Code: SPEC59

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This scarce Michigan Bell Telephone Company Specimen $1000 Bond Certificate is from 1959. Michigan Bell is part of the original Bell System regionals that served Michigan and the Midwest. After the 1984 breakup, they became part of Ameritech who later bought SBC and then changed their name to AT&T.

About Specimens:
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.