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99% Invisible
It was edited by Geert Ruinhuis and a colleague and contained a chapter on the 1648 Dutch water authority bond, shown in photos within the book.
Okay so if you pick up this book to your right go to the flag page. This is a book Geert and a colleague edited called The Origin of Value which is about various financial instruments throughout the a...
— Episode: Mini-Stories: Volume 8
Episode: Mini-Stories: Volume 8
It was edited by Geert Ruinhuis and a colleague and contained a chapter on the 1648 Dutch water authority bond, shown in photos within the book.
Okay so if you pick up this book to your right go to the flag page. This is a book Geert and a colleague edited called The Origin of Value which is about various financial instruments throughout the ages and there's a chapter all about this bond and so you can see the front and the back of it here.
Wow well it's like it's just a bunch of script like it doesn't look like designed the way I think of a bond looking with all the filigree and cool stuff about a bond. It's really basic.