For the bonds issued by the cities or states, some specific rules have been introduced in order to improve access to the data and speed up the searches in our database.

For the state loans, the name of the country is first entered in english followed by the initial year of issue. Follows in the language of the certificate the name of the country and any other specific information on the loan. Opposite, a bond issued by the Belgian Congo. It has been entered as 'BELGIAN CONGO 1906 COLONIE DU CONGO - DETTE PUBLIQUE 4%'

Similarly, the loans issued by the cities have been entered first by the name of the citty, followed by the date of issue, the name of the city and the loan denomination. The terms 'city', 'county',... have been moved to the end. If the text is written in various language, thay are all entered. Opposite a bond issued by the city of Antwerp and written in 2 languages : French and Dutch : 'ANVERS 1936 EMPRUNT DE 75.000.000 F STAD ANTWERPEN, VILLE D'

Nevertheless, you will find numerous bonds that do not respect this encoding rule as it has been introduced recently.