Ottoman Salonique-Constantin ople 500 francs 3% bearer share Date 1893 super !

                     
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Foreign direct investment entered into the Ottoman Empire to support and develop foreign trade.
Europeans who wanted to sell their manufactured products and acquire raw materials were instrumental in the construction of trade-related infrastructure in this country.

Therefore, the first French investments, like those of other countries, were made for constructing railways and ports. The growth of raw material production in primary commodities, finally led to an increase in the number of foreign service companies such as banks and insurance providers that served these transport and production facilities.

The initial motivations of French investors were mainly economic as they tried to find new markets and secure a viable share in these markets before their international competitors. Motives gradually became political as the opinion about the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire got stronger by the end of the nineteenth century.

The French government assisted its investors in obtaining important concessions for investments in Anatolia, the Balkans, and the Arab provinces of the Empire


      Size approx 12 inches x 18 inches---

     This certificate is a bearer share for 500 francs paying 3% per annum ---Text in French and old Turkish script---

    Capital raised was used to develope the Railway between Salonique + Constantinople---

     Printed in Paris---

    Seperate   large coupon sheet which at one time was attached to the main document---

   Coupon payment  stopped in 1940 which was probably to do with the Second  World War---

  Reverse of the document shows only the amortissement table ---



           

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