The price at which The Adams Express Company (NYSE: ADX) common stock will be issued in payment of the $0.30 year-end distribution, made up of $0.02 income dividend and $0.28 realized capital gains, to stockholders who have elected to receive the distribution in stock, payable December 28, 2009, is $9.84 per share. This price is the mean between today's high and low sales prices of the Company's stock on the New York Stock Exchange.

The Adams Express Company is a Baltimore-based closed-end investment company.

For further information please contact:

Douglas G. Ober, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President

Lawrence L. Hooper, Jr., Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary

(410) 752-5900 or (800) 638-2479

email: contact@adamsexpress.com

website: www.adamsexpress.com

SOURCE Adams Express Company