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10 Gulden
| Issuer | Badische Bank |
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| Year | 1870 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central text panel carries the bank title in a banner at top, with the denomination in ornate Gothic script and the place and date of issue below, flanked by two intaglio-engraved allegorical vignettes — a female figure with a child to the left and a seated female figure with a key attribute to the right. Numeral 10 appears in guilloche cornerpieces at all four corners, and folio and series numbers are printed in the upper margin. Two handwritten directorial signatures appear below the main text, with series letter and serial number at foot. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a large central guilloche rosette with an interlocking monogram underprint at its centre, surrounded by an elaborate lace-like border incorporating seated female portrait medallions at left and right, each enclosed within a circular guilloche frame. The numeral 10 is printed in bold at each corner, and a continuous band of microtext encircles the central vignette. |
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The Badische Bank was founded in 1870 in Mannheim as one of the private note-issuing banks permitted under the liberal banking laws of the North German Confederation — its establishment and this inaugural note series effectively coinciding. Germany's monetary unification was still years away; the Reichsbank wouldn't absorb private issuing rights until the process that concluded in 1935, but the real squeeze came with the Reichsbank Act of 1875, which sharply curtailed the Badische Bank's circulation privileges almost immediately after notes like this one entered use.
Mannheim as both domicile and press location is consistent with the bank's tightly regional operation throughout its early decades.