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1.2 - Does the price of a private company drop by 5 for no sale in the first round?

1800, 1827Jr, 1829, 1830, 1830BC, 1832, 1844, 1849v4, 1850, 1854, 1856, 1862, 1870, 1895, 18EC, 18GA, 18Mex, 18Rhl Rhineland, 18TN Yes, first private only.
1824, 1835, 1837SX, 1838 Rheinland, 1848, 18Scan, 2038 No.
1825 No. One private per player dealt at random and sold compulsorily. With more than 4 players, the others get LNWR shares.
1826 No. First player must buy the first private if round passes out.
1829 Mainline Not applicable - initial share holdings are dealt, not sold.
1830NL Yes, but the second company, not the first which pays no dividend. [Seems daft to me.]
1831, 1841, 1849v1&3, 1853, 1898, 18EU, 18West, Crisis Not applicable.
1837 10 subtracted.
1842 Not stated.
1846 No. Players draw from a mixed deck of private companies and dummy cards, choosing which items to keep. The last drawn private company may be passed round the table, reducing in price by $10  each time it is passed on, until it is either bought, or taken at no cost.
1851 No. One private per player is dealt at random and sold compulsorily.
1860 No. All auctions start at zero.
1861 Yes, for all private companies. Any private company price may drop to zero as a result of this.
1889 Yes, Takamatsu ER(A) only. Must buy if 0 Yen.
18C2C Yes, but after an operating round. May apply to the Great River Shipping Company and/or the Schuykill Valley Railroad.
18FL, 18US No. Privates are bought at face value, following a bidding process to determine the order in which players make their purchases. 18US has   Concessions instead of Privates.
18GL No. If all players pass without buying the first private, the player with the priority must buy it for its face value.
18MW No. There are in effect seven simultaneous auctions for the privates.
18NL Yes, for the first two privates only.
18VA No. A series of auction is undertaken. Any private that has not been bid on at the end of each auction is reduced in price by $10.
Steam Over Holland No. A number of privates equal to the number of players are selected at random and auctioned in sequence. If nobody bids the private is removed from the game.

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