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1 Thaler
| Issuer | Herzoglich Sachsen-Gothaissche Cassen-Anweisung (Ducal Saxe-Gotha Treasury) |
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| Year | 1860 |
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| Reference(s) | P#S708 |
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| Reverse description | Printed uniformly in brown, the reverse is composed entirely of intricate guilloche lathe-work arranged in a cross-shaped layout, with two large central medallions bearing the numeral 1 in ornate cartouches, flanked by four smaller circular medallions each enclosing an engraved ducal crown. The denomination EIN THALER is inscribed in bold letterpress within a horizontal band at centre. The letter prefix Lit. S. appears at upper left, the printer's imprint at lower right, and the word Ausgefertigt: with a manuscript countersignature at the lower margin. |
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| Protection type | Guilloche underprint |
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Saxe-Gotha was one of the smaller Ernestine duchies of the Thuringian states, and by 1860 its days as an independent issuing authority were numbered — the duchy merged into Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and was eventually absorbed into the German Empire a decade later. This Cassen-Anweisung is effectively a treasury warrant rather than a central bank note, a distinction that mattered legally at the time.
Giesecke & Devrient, then still in their early years having been founded in Leipzig in 1852, supplied the guilloche underprint security work — a technique they would refine into one of the most respected banknote printing operations in the world.