A trilingual financial document in Russian, French, and English, boldly signed by Nathan Mayer Rothschild (1777-1836), as "N Rothschild / Contractor" along the upper right edge recto. The loan certificate numbered No. 6293 was issued on March 1, 1822 in the amount of 720 Rubles or £111 Sterling. The certificate represented an investment in the "Public Debt of the Imperial Commission of the Sinking Fund" and promised a 5% annual return. Bearing various co-signatures, dockets, notations, hand-stamps, and revenue seals, including a decorative blind-embossed seal at bottom reading "Russian Loan 1822 Contracted by N.M. Rothschild." Expected wear commensurate with age, including horizontal and vertical folds, some with separation, loss, or repair. Unevenly trimmed at left. Else very good to near fine. 9.625" x 14.5." Accompanied by a "talon" or coupon dated March 1918.

The document states in part:

"The bearer of this Certificate is entitled to an Annuity of Thirty-six Silver Roubles [sic] payable half-yearly, at his option, in St. - Petersburg or London; namely, Eighteen Silver Roubles on the first day of March, and Eighteen Silver Roubles on the first day of September; if in St. - Petersburg, in Silver Roubles of the standard now current; if in London, at the rate of three shillings and one penny sterling per Silver Rouble: in both instances, on presentation of the Dividend Warrants then due…"

Nathan Mayer Rothschild was the third son of Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744-1812), the founder of the Rothschild banking dynasty and family patriarch. Originally of German Jewish ancestry, the Rothschild Family had emerged as a preeminent banking house in the eighteenth century. Nathan had established the family branch in London after 1798. The family's sphere of influence was expanded by also establishing satellite banks in Paris, Vienna, and Naples. By the early nineteenth century, the Rothschilds were one of the most significant financial concerns in Europe. It became the creditor of teetering monarchies, bankrupt kingdoms, and fledgling nation states in Europe, the Americas, and Africa.

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