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Between 1691 and 1693, almost one in five patents issued in England was for a diving machine.

Not a loom. Not a pump. A machine for going underwater.

Four years earlier, William Phips had sailed up the Thames with 32 tons of silver hauled off a Spanish wreck north of Hispaniola. He personally took home £11,000. A merchant at the top of London society made £400 a year. A labourer made £15.

When Phips landed, England had fewer than fifteen joint-stock companies. Within seven years it had over a hundred, a printed price list, a working options market, and a name for the era. Daniel Defoe, who lost £200 in a diving venture and afterwards called himself the cully, called it the Projecting Age.

Then the silver coinage collapsed, East India stock fell from £200 to £37, and every single diving company went under.

The wreck divers were the wrong story. The market that formed around them was not.

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Hi everyone,

I'm a collector of old stocks and bonds certificates and the person behind an online community related to the niche. I wanted to know if some of you were aware of this small market of numismatics. Here are some pictures of a few documents that I have saved this week.

Here are just a few of the certificates available on the new Shop page of ScripoTime.com

Members now get 10% to 20% off at five trusted scripophily dealers. Browse all their inventories directly on ScripoTime, then complete your purchase on the dealer's own website using the discount code from the shop page.

ScripoTime takes a small commission, which goes straight into growing the platform.

Take a look: scripotime.com

Here are just a few of the certificates available on the new Shop page of ScripoTime.com

Members now get 10% to 20% off at five trusted scripophily dealers. Browse all their inventories directly on ScripoTime, then complete your purchase on the dealer's own website using the discount code from the shop page.

ScripoTime takes a small commission, which goes straight into growing the platform.

Take a look: scripotime.com

Here are just a few of the certificates available on the new Shop page of ScripoTime.com

Members now get 10% to 20% off at five trusted scripophily dealers. Browse all their inventories directly on ScripoTime, then complete your purchase on the dealer's own website using the discount code from the shop page.

ScripoTime takes a small commission, which goes straight into growing the platform.

Take a look: scripotime.com

Here are just a few of the certificates available on the new Shop page of ScripoTime.com

Members now get 10% to 20% off at five trusted scripophily dealers. Browse all their inventories directly on ScripoTime, then complete your purchase on the dealer's own website using the discount code from the shop page.

ScripoTime takes a small commission, which goes straight into growing the platform.

Take a look: scripotime.com

ScripoTime is a platform built for collectors of scripophily, antique stock and bond certificates that tell the story of financial history. Think of it as a home base for the hobby: a marketplace to buy and sell certificates, a catalog to research and identify pieces, a gallery to showcase collections, a forum to connect with other collectors, and a wiki with background on the companies and eras behind each certificate.

Whether you’re drawn to 19th century railway shares, Gilded Age industrials, or more obscure pieces of financial history, ScripoTime is where you can browse, learn, and start (or grow) a collection.

Through ScripoTime’s dealer partnerships, members can get 10% to 20% off purchases in the shop section. These are separate arrangements from any of our other past affiliate programs, each partner dealer offers their own discount code, so it’s worth checking the shop page to see which sellers are currently offering a deal.

Hi everyone,

I've started building out a section on my website covering major events in financial history, many of them tied directly to scripophily. I'd love to hear your thoughts: are there events I'm missing, or ways you'd change the content or approach?

https://scripotime.com/history

Hi everyone,

I have redesigned the catalogue section of the website following some of your feedback. Let me know if things are unclear. The idea of this catalogue is to enable people to digitalize your collection very quickly and by doing so contribute to a common catalogue which essentially keeps track of all the certificates that are present on the website.

If you're interested in digitalizing your collection but you currently have it stored, let's say, in an Excel, just send me a message at info@scripotime.com and I could upload it for you. Otherwise you can upload each certificate one by one and I'm using software that extracts the textual data from the images and pre-fills all the forms to make the process much quicker. Let me know if you have any questions

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Hi everyone, I collect old financial certificates, and this hobby is called "scripophily." If you're interested in this branch of numismatism, let's connect on my website, Scripotime.com. I started a global community of collectors related to financial history collectibles :)

Hi everyone, I added a gallery section on scripotime where collectors can share some of their favorite certificates with other collectors from around the world. Let me know if you want to contribute :)

Hi everyone,

I just launched a new feature on ScripoTime.com: you can now store your entire collection online. Each certificate can be kept private, shared on the gallery, or listed directly on the marketplace for those looking to buy, sell, or exchange pieces.

I'd love to know what you think and how the tool could better serve your needs.

A huge thank you to everyone who has shown support these past weeks. Let's keep building something as lively as the coin and banknote collector communities out there!

Feel free to reach out with any questions !

Scripophily is one of those hobbies most people have never heard of. You collect the physical paper that once represented real ownership or debt in companies and banks that shaped economic history. Once you fall into it, it's hard to stop.

A few certificates I found online over the last years:

Apple Computer, Inc. — Common Stock, 1987 Signed by John Sculley as Chairman and CEO. Rainbow Apple logo, Apple II illustration, one share. Probably the most recognized certificates in the hobby right now.

Société des Phonographes & Cinématographes "LUX" — Paris, 1908 A 100-franc bearer share from a company selling phonographs and early cinema equipment. The vignette has allegorical figures, a phonograph, early film apparatus, and — for some reason — the Statue of Liberty. Classic Belle Époque engraving.

The Walt Disney Company — Common Stock, 1999 Disney certificates are hugely collectible. The vignette shows Walt surrounded by Mickey, Tinker Bell, Bambi, Pinocchio, Winnie the Pooh. This one was issued to a holder in Paris, which I found charming.

Eidgenoessische Bank / Banque Fédérale — Zürich, 1893 A Swiss federal bank share with an allegorical panorama across the top: Helvetia enthroned, Alpine scenery, sailing ships, industry on one side, commerce on the other. Bilingual German/French. Exceptional engraving.

Compagnie Maritime Valéry Frères et Fils — Paris, 1878 A 500-franc bearer bond from a steamship company running between Marseille, Algeria, and Tunisia. Labeled "Europe" and "Afrique" at the bottom corners. Later overstamped by F. Morelli & Cie after a company succession. I love the narrative history baked into the paper itself.

Banque de Rose (Розова Банка) — Sofia, 1917 My personal favorite. A Bulgarian bank dedicated to the rose oil industry — Bulgaria was the world's dominant producer at the time. The imagery shows women harvesting roses in traditional dress. Bilingual Bulgarian/French. 100 leva or, 75% paid up. Completely different aesthetic from anything Western European.

The hobby sits at the intersection of financial history, graphic art, and paper ephemera. Most pieces cost less than a decent bottle of wine and contain more history than you'd expect.

If anyone else collects, or is curious where to start, happy to talk. I post new finds occasionally on ScripoTime.