188_ $10 American Exchange in Europe - Net Fine (Cancelled) - Mark Twain Fr. 1654 a building in the distance

a building in the distance

1958-D Lincoln Cent – RB Uncirculated

Marked: 800

Judith Ripka

188_ $10 American Exchange in Europe - Net Fine (Cancelled) - Mark Twain Fr. 1654 a building in the distanceThe American Exchange in Europe, located in London, was a clubhouse, reading room, bank, steamship and railway agency and newspaper among its many other arms. In the late 1880s the company went bankrupt and, among its other investors, Mark Twain (who had invested $10,000 was interviewed regarding the company. He had this to say: "I went into this thing on the representation that Gen. Hawley was the president of the exchange in every sense of the word.