Financial History—Lionel de Rothschild | Bill of Exchange for 600,000 Marks, 20 September 1872

History of Finance—Lionel de Rothschild

Document signed, bill of Exchange for 600,000 Marks

issued on the order of "H. E. Minister of Finance for France" and addressed to M. M. Warburg of Hamburg, the Prussian State Bankers, 1 page, oblong 8vo (261 x 113mm), London, 20 September 1872, stamped and docketed

A FRENCH PAYMENT OF WAR REPARATIONS. This is one of a series of payments totalling five billion Francs which Prussia demanded that France should pay as a War Indemnity by the Treaty of Frankfurt of May 1871, which ended the Franco Prussian War.