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This is amazing, but I find it disappointing that the NYSE (current owner) hasn't collected interest on it since 2004. Given that most of the charm is that this is still an active financial document, I don't understand why they wouldn't keep it going. Otherwise it's just another defunct historical document.

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The article is about them collecting interest a couple weeks ago on the 400th anniversary? They clearly are keeping it going, just only collecting interest irregularly at PR milestones.

Because the bond has to be physically presented.

Moving such a document is extremely risky and a lot of work so not worth it in almost any case short of the PR bump/curiousity of having the "world's oldest bond"

Given this, we should be thankful that the NYSE is maintaining this at a loss. It occurs to me that NYSE might be the best owner of this bond, as the primary value isn’t monetary, but the demonstration of stable financial institutions.

Even if you didn't have to move it, getting a taxi to some meeting place would exceed the interest payments, let alone traveling to Europe.

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