Lottery
Smith's Financial Dictionary · 1903 · p. 298
bond. A lottery bond is one of an i ue made (generally by some government on the Continent of Europe) for some exceptional work, as an exhibition, bonuses being offered to subscribers in the shape of cash prizes which are drawn for periodically, the prizes going to the holders of bonds which bear numbers corresponding to those drawn.; ‘ Louis. A colloquial name for the 20-franc gold piece of France, equal to $3.85.90; the name is derived from a gold coin | of France of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
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