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{{a|repack|{{image| | {{a|repack|{{image|Transylvanian Bond|jpeg|A Transylvanian [[bond]] spotted in a cool but ironic restaurant in Sighișoara yesterday.}} }}[[Interest]]. Derives from the traditional means of paying interest on a [[definitive]], security-printed [[bearer bond]], wherein each interest payment was represented by a detachable perforated strip on the side of the [[bond]] - you know, like coupons in the newspaper - which the [[bondholder]] would tear off and present to the [[paying agent]] in return for the interest payment in question. | ||
Hence the fabled journey each year of the [[Belgian dentist]] in which he would set out in his Citroën 2CV with only his favourite pork-pie hat, a brown suit and a battered suitcase full of carefully clipped coupons, cross the border, present his coupons to the Luxembourg [[paying agent]], meet his great pal the [[Avocat à la cour|Luxembourg netting specialist]] at ''Aéroport Hercule Poirot'' and the two of them, like Hunter S. Thompson and his Samoan attorney, only from the Low Countries, depart on a two-week mescaline and amphetamine-fueled orgy across the Spanish Mediterranean before returning to their respective practices, the Belgian’s a maxillo-facial practice in Brussels’ red-light district, the Luxembourgische, a commercial law partnership on [[Avenue J. F. Kennedy]], by the first day of September. | Hence the fabled journey each year of the [[Belgian dentist]] in which he would set out in his Citroën 2CV with only his favourite pork-pie hat, a brown suit and a battered suitcase full of carefully clipped coupons, cross the border, present his coupons to the Luxembourg [[paying agent]], meet his great pal the [[Avocat à la cour|Luxembourg netting specialist]] at ''Aéroport Hercule Poirot'' and the two of them, like Hunter S. Thompson and his Samoan attorney, only from the Low Countries, depart on a two-week mescaline and amphetamine-fueled orgy across the Spanish Mediterranean before returning to their respective practices, the Belgian’s a maxillo-facial practice in Brussels’ red-light district, the Luxembourgische, a commercial law partnership on [[Avenue J. F. Kennedy]], by the first day of September. | ||