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Long-Term Debt (Tables) | 6 Months Ended
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Jun. 30, 2015
Debt Disclosure [Abstract] |
Schedule of long-term debt instruments | The carrying value of long-term debt consisted of the following (in millions):
| June 30, 2015 |  | December 31, 2014
Direct Senior Obligations of AFG: |  |  |
9-7/8% Senior Notes due June 2019 | $ | 350 |  |  | $ | 350 |
6-3/8% Senior Notes due June 2042 | 230 |  |  | 230 |
5-3/4% Senior Notes due August 2042 | 125 |  |  | 125 |
7% Senior Notes due September 2050 | 132 |  |  | 132 |
Other | 3 |  |  | 3 |
| 840 |  |  | 840 |
Direct Subordinated Obligations of AFG: |  |  |
6-1/4% Subordinated Debentures due September 2054 | 150 |  |  | 150 |
Subsidiaries: |  |  |
Notes payable secured by real estate due 2015 through 2016 | 22 |  |  | 59 |
National Interstate bank credit facility | 12 |  |  | 12 |
| 34 |  |  | 71 |
| $ | 1,024 |  |  | $ | 1,061 |
Summary of secured and unsecured long-term debt | As shown below (in millions), the majority of AFG’s long-term debt is unsecured obligations of the holding company and its subsidiaries:
| June 30, 2015 |  | December 31, 2014
Senior unsecured obligations | $ | 852 |  |  | $ | 852 |
Subordinated unsecured obligations | 150 |  |  | 150 |
Obligations secured by real estate | 22 |  |  | 59 |
| $ | 1,024 |  |  | $ | 1,061 |

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