Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. - Vignette of Marcus Goldman & Samuel Sachs - 1999 dated Specimen Stock Certificate - Fantastic Design
Inv# SE3460 Specimen Stock
New Jersey
New York
Specimen Stock printed by American Bank Note Company. Portraits of Marcus Goldman and Samuel Sachs. Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a prominent American multinational investment bank and financial services firm, recognized as the second largest investment bank in the world by revenue. It holds the 55th position on the Fortune 500 list of the largest U.S. corporations based on total revenue and is classified as a systemically important financial institution by the Financial Stability Board. The company offers a wide range of services, including investment banking (providing advisory services for mergers and acquisitions and restructuring), securities underwriting, prime brokerage, asset management, and wealth management through its division, Goldman Sachs Personal Financial Management. Furthermore, it manages private equity and hedge funds, designs complex and tailored financial products, and operates Goldman Sachs Bank USA, a direct banking entity. Goldman Sachs is involved in flow trading on behalf of clients as well as proprietary trading for its own interests. The firm also invests in and facilitates financing for startups, frequently acting as a bookrunner during their public offerings. Additionally, it is one of over 100 strategic partners of the World Economic Forum.
Established in 1869 by Marcus Goldman in a modest one-room basement office in New York City, the firm began its operations adjacent to a coal chute. Samuel Sachs, Goldman's son-in-law, became part of the firm in 1882, and by 1885, Goldman's son Henry Goldman and another son-in-law, Ludwig Dreyfuss, joined, resulting in the firm adopting the name Goldman Sachs & Co. The company was a trailblazer in utilizing commercial paper for entrepreneurs and became a member of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in 1896. By 1898, the firm's capital had increased to $1.6 million. Goldman Sachs further expanded its footprint by establishing offices in Boston and Chicago in 1900, followed by San Francisco in 1918, and Philadelphia and St. Louis in 1920.
Stock and Bond Specimens are made and usually retained by a printer as a record of the contract with a client, generally with manuscript contract notes such as the quantity printed. Specimens are sometimes produced for use by the printing company's sales team as examples of the firm’s products. These are usually marked "Specimen" and have no serial numbers.
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