Consols

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Webster's Dictionary [1]

(n. pl.) The leading British funded government security.

The Nuttall Encyclopedia [2]

The Consolidated Fund, loans to Government made at different times and at different rates of interest, consolidated for convenience into one common loan, bearing interest at 3 per cent., reduced in 1830 to 2¾, and in 1893 to 2½.

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