Indiana Gas Company, Inc. 1979 ( Now Vectren Corporation )

Beautifully engraved SPECIMEN certificate from the Indiana Gas Company dated 1979. This historic document was printed by the Security-Columbian Banknote Company and has an ornate border around it with a vignette of a woman in front of an oil refinery and river with a tanker. This item has the printed signatures of the Company's President and Secretary and is over 24 years old.






Certificate Vignette

Vectren Corporation is an energy and applied technology holding company headquartered in Evansville, Indiana. Vectren's energy delivery subsidiaries provide gas and/or electricity to nearly one million customers in adjoining service territories that cover nearly two-thirds of Indiana and west central Ohio. Vectren's non-regulated subsidiaries and affiliates currently offer energy-related products and services to customers throughout the surrounding region. These include gas marketing and related services; coal production and sales; utility infrastructure services; and broadband communication services.

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About Specimens

Specimen Certificates are actual certificates that have never been issued. They were usually kept by the printers in their permanent archives as their only example of a particular certificate. Sometimes you will see a hand stamp on the certificate that says "Do not remove from file".

Specimens were also used to show prospective clients different types of certificate designs that were available. Specimen certificates are usually much scarcer than issued certificates. In fact, many times they are the only way to get a certificate for a particular company because the issued certificates were redeemed and destroyed. In a few instances, Specimen certificates we made for a company but were never used because a different design was chosen by the company.

These certificates are normally stamped "Specimen" or they have small holes spelling the word specimen. Most of the time they don't have a serial number, or they have a serial number of 00000. This is an exciting sector of the hobby that grown in popularity and realized nice appreciation in value over the past several years.