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1 Thaler
| Issuer | Haupt-Verwaltung der Staats-Schulden, Prussia |
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| Year | 1824 |
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| Value | 1 Thaler |
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| Obverse lettering | Königlich Preuss. Cassen-Anweisung Ein Thaler Courant nach dem Münz- fußse von 1764, geltend in allen Zahlungen für voll. Ausgefertigt zu Berlin, den 6ten Mai 1824. Haupt-Verwaltung der Staats-Schulden. Eingetragen sub No 481637. Lit. G. |
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| Protection type | Guilloche underprint, Manuscript signatures, Serial number |
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Prussia's Haupt-Verwaltung der Staats-Schulden — the central debt administration — issued this 1 Thaler note during a period when the Prussian state was still working through the financial consequences of the Napoleonic Wars. Paper money remained deeply unpopular among the Prussian public well into the 1820s; hard coin was the preferred medium, and treasury notes of this denomination circulated reluctantly at best.
Manuscript signatures rather than printed ones place authentication responsibility directly on individual officials — a deliberate accountability measure common in early nineteenth-century German state issues. The guilloche underprint was among the more sophisticated anti-counterfeiting tools available at the time, though Prussian printers were still developing the mechanical consistency that later made Berlin a respected security printing center.