About 90 percent of the issue was sold to non-French investors, including big United States pension funds, and 50 percent went to buyers outside the euro area.
A sales analysis on the Beat, the comic blog of Publishers Weekly, estimated that more than 520,000 copies of the issue were sold.
Six thousand (plus pieces for the Assay Commission) were struck at each mint, and the issue was sold in sets of three, for $6.25.
(Before you go looking, be warned: the full text of Hunt's essay is not available online and the back issue is sold out at the McSweeneys store).
Though the magazine's print run had been 60,000 prior to the attack, close to 8,000,000 copies of the January 14 issue were sold.
The investments at issue were sold in 2008 to five investors, including the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco and Wachovia Bank, which has since been acquired by Wells Fargo.
If a bond or preferred stock issue was sold when interest rates were higher than at present, it may be profitable to call the old issue and refund it with a new, lower-cost issue.
The latter issue was sold to public investors, although most of the bonds are held by institutional investors, including junk bond mutual funds.
Shares in the so-called rights issue were sold at a 41percentt discount to the London closing price Friday and yielded HSBC $17.7 billion net of expenses.
Shares in the so-called rights issue were sold at a 41percentt discount to the company's closing share price in London on Friday and yielded HSBC $17.7 billion net of expenses.
