The Ohio Bell Telephone Company Specimen Bond

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This Ohio Bell Telephone Company Specimen Bond Certificate is from 1980. Ohio Bell was part of the Bell System until the 1984 breakup which then made them a subsidiary of Ameritech and named Ameritech Ohio. They are now known as AT&T Ohio.

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.