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Steven
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Steven asked in Arts & HumanitiesHistory · 4 weeks ago

Which is the oldest, still current, government debt?

And please no answers from anonymous users with apparent pedophilic racist tendancies mocking Afghani toddlers and people with mental retardation, like in the link below.

Answer is almost a borderline police matter.

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20210...

Update:

The answer in the link above is not the same answer I was referring too. The answer I was referring to was removed and replaced by another.

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  • 4 weeks ago
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    There is a government bond from the Netherlands that is held by a university in the USA (Harvard I think) that is many hundreds of years old.  700 if I remember correctly.  There is an annual payout, but it is pretty small in today's money.

  • Anonymous
    3 weeks ago

    I'm not going to submit an educated answer because of how judgmental you are.

  • Anonymous
    4 weeks ago

    There's supposedly a bond in France that still pays interest 280 years later, but the amount is so small the owner doesn't think it's worth trying to prove.

    Semi-related, Irene Triplett the last person to collect a pension from the American Civil War died last year.

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