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<LEGEND>
The schedule contains summary financial information from Trump's Castle Funding,
Inc. This data has been extracted from the Consolidated Balance Sheets and
Consolidated Statements of Operations for the three month and nine month periods
ended September 30, 1997 and is qualified in its entirety by reference to such
Financial Statements.
</LEGEND>

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