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10 Thaler
| Issuer | Niedersächsische Bank, Bückeburg |
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| Year | 1856 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Obverse lettering | Zehn Thaler zahlt die Bank-Casse in Bückeburg gegen diese Banknote. Ausgegeben auf dem Grund des Statuts d. d. Bückeburg, 12. Septbr. 1856. Der Regierungs-Commissair: Die Direction: |
| Reverse description | Intricate engine-turned guilloché design printed in olive-grey, covering the entire field with a dense lattice of interlocking diamond and floral geometric patterns. A large central oval panel contains the coat of arms of Schaumburg-Lippe, surrounded by a circular legend reading "NIEDERSÄCHSISCHE BANK BÜCKEBURG", with denomination numerals "10" set within guilloché roundels at the left and right. Heraldic vignettes — including eagles and other armorial devices — occupy the four corners, and a narrow ornamental border with additional small vignettes frames the composition. |
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The Niedersächsische Bank in Bückeburg was the state bank of Schaumburg-Lippe, one of the smallest sovereignties in the German Confederation — a principality covering roughly 340 square kilometres with a population that barely exceeded 30,000. That such a territory issued its own banknotes at all is a minor curiosity of the pre-unification patchwork, and the bank's output was correspondingly limited in volume.
By 1856 the Thaler was already under pressure from the broader German currency harmonization debates that would accelerate after 1857. Notes of this denomination from such a minor issuer circulated in a very restricted geographic area and saw little interregional use.