Perpetual bonds are still issued today.

永续债券至今仍在发行。

And here's the story of how that 1624 perpetual bond traveled from the Netherlands to the United States.

以下是 1624 年永久债券如何从荷兰流向美国的故事。

Pete says the New York Stock Exchange usually keeps the 1624 perpetual bond in its archives in New Jersey, but Pete brought it out just for us.

皮特说，纽约证券交易所通常将 1624 永续债券保存在新泽西州的档案中，但皮特专门为我们拿出来了。

It's now been about a decade since anyone's gone, but an archivist that Pete knows at a Dutch organization that has its own perpetual bonds made the trip more recently.

现在已经有大约十年没有人离开了，但皮特在一家拥有永久债券的荷兰组织认识的一位档案员最近才来过一次。

And Jeroen says, for him, these perpetual bonds link him to his predecessors, all of the people who came before him who took on the responsibility of safeguarding the country's water infrastructure.

杰伦说，对他来说，这些永久的纽带将他与他的前任联系在一起，所有在他之前承担起保护国家水基础设施责任的人。

But there is a twist when it comes to the bond that this Dutch water authority issued in 1624. It didn't have an expiration date, so it's what's called a perpetual bond.

但荷兰水务局于 1624 年发行的债券却有一个不同之处。它没有到期日，所以这就是所谓的永续债券。

What's remarkable about these Dutch perpetual bonds from the 1600s is that a very small number of them - like, fewer than 10 - are still around today in their physical form.

这些 1600 年代荷兰永久债券的非凡之处在于，其中只有极少数（例如不到 10 个）至今仍然以实物形式存在。