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10 Gulden Frankfurter Bank
| Issuer | Frankfurter Bank |
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| Year | 1855 |
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| Reference(s) | P#S215 |
| Obverse description | Printed in black and blue on a brown underprint. A vignette of Francofurtia appears at left, with denomination text and printed signatures of the Director and Subdirector at centre. At right, two female heads wearing mural crowns are shown in profile facing opposite directions. A handwritten signature appears at lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | DIE FRANKFURTER BANK bezahlt gegen diesen Bankschein ZEHN GULDEN IN BAAREM GELDE. Frankfurt a. M. 1. Januar 1855 Der Director. Der Subdirector. Für die Controle: ZEHN 10 |
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The Frankfurter Bank was a private note-issuing institution founded in 1854, operating in the Free City of Frankfurt before its absorption into the Prussian-dominated German monetary union. This note dates from the bank's first full year of active operation. Frankfurt at mid-century was still an independent city-state and a major financial hub — home to the German Confederation's Federal Assembly and the Rothschild family's original banking house — which gave local private paper currency a credibility it lacked in more peripheral German states.
The bank lost its right to issue notes following the Austro-Prussian War of 1866, when Prussia annexed Frankfurt outright. Notes from the 1855 series had fewer than fifteen years of potential circulation before the institution was wound down entirely.