Catalog
1 Thaler
| Issuer | Herzoglich Anhaltische Staats-Schulden-Verwaltung |
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| Year | 1861-1866 |
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| Printer | Giesecke & Devrient, Leipzig, Germany |
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| Obverse description | The upper portion of the note is dominated by the ducal Anhalt coat of arms, crowned and supported by two lions, flanked by decorative oak-leaf sprays, with the issuing authority's title rendered in a curved banner across the vignette. Below, the denomination 'Ein Thaler Courant' is set in large Gothic letterpress script, followed by the legal tender clause, date, and the full title of the issuing administration. At the lower margin, two numeral '1' counters flank a central anti-counterfeiting text panel, with handwritten signatures of authorizing officials appearing between the main text and the lower panel. |
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| Obverse lettering | HERZOGL. ANHALTISCHER STAATS-KASSENSCHEIN Ein Thaler Courant im 30 Thaler-Fuße, vollgültig in allen Zahlungen. Dessau, den 1ten August 1866. Herzoglich Anhaltische Staats-Schulden-Verwaltung |
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Anhalt was a patchwork of semi-independent duchies — Anhalt-Dessau, Anhalt-Köthen, and Anhalt-Bernburg — that only unified into a single Duchy of Anhalt in 1863. Notes issued under the Staats-Schulden-Verwaltung (state debt administration) therefore straddle that constitutional transition, and earlier dates in this series were authorized before unification was legally complete.
Giesecke & Devrient had been established in Leipzig only in 1852, and Anhalt was among their early state clients. The Thaler itself was obsoleted by the introduction of the Mark system following German unification in 1871.