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10 Thaler
| Issuer | Bank für Süddeutschland, Darmstadt |
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| Year | 1857 |
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| Currency | Thaler (1566-1873) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress print in black on pale paper with a red underprint, with elaborate Baroque-style vignettes of putti occupying the upper corners and lower register, several holding attributes including a torch and a shield bearing the numeral 10. The issuer's title "DIE BANK FÜR SÜDDEUTSCHLAND" is set in bold blackletter type at the top centre, beneath which the denomination "Zehn Thaler" appears in large Gothic script, followed by the place and date of issue. Two manuscript signatures appear below the printed signature lines, with folio, series, and serial number cartouches positioned at the upper left, lower left, and upper right. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in black and carries the numeric denomination in cartouches at the left and right margins, flanking a central vignette of an idealised female figure rendered as an angel accompanied by two children, executed in a refined intaglio style consistent with mid-nineteenth-century German banknote engraving. |
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The Bank für Süddeutschland was founded in Darmstadt in 1853, one of several joint-stock credit banks established in the German states during the early 1850s boom in railway and industrial finance — itself modeled on the French Crédit Mobilier. By 1857, when this note was issued, the bank was already navigating the first signs of the transatlantic financial crisis that would hit German markets hard that autumn.
Carl Naumann's Frankfurt press was a reliable regional supplier for banknote and commercial printing in the mid-nineteenth century. The Thaler denomination places this squarely before Germany's monetary consolidation — the shift to the Mark came only after unification in 1871, rendering Thaler-denominated notes obsolete within fifteen years of issue.