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<p>[QUOTE="gsalexan, post: 1125967, member: 24274"]On Dec. 31, 1991, DTM Business Trust bought just over 2 million shares of Sun Distributors, LP -- and sold them all the same day. The stock closed at 2 5/8 a share and fluctuated about 1/8 point that day, so the trade value was between $5 and 5.25 million. American Bank Note Co. created the nicely engraved woman gracing the certificate.</p><p><br /></p><p>CDS & Co. bought just barely under a million shares of Westcoast Energy on Sept. 3, 1997, probably to keep it below a tax threshhold. The closing value of this certificate that day was $19.56 million. Westcoast was a Canadian company and Canadian Bank Note Co. engraved the certificate.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="gsalexan, post: 1125967, member: 24274"]On Dec. 31, 1991, DTM Business Trust bought just over 2 million shares of Sun Distributors, LP -- and sold them all the same day. The stock closed at 2 5/8 a share and fluctuated about 1/8 point that day, so the trade value was between $5 and 5.25 million. American Bank Note Co. created the nicely engraved woman gracing the certificate. CDS & Co. bought just barely under a million shares of Westcoast Energy on Sept. 3, 1997, probably to keep it below a tax threshhold. The closing value of this certificate that day was $19.56 million. Westcoast was a Canadian company and Canadian Bank Note Co. engraved the certificate.[/QUOTE]
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