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10 Thaler
| Issuer | Grossherzoglich Luxemburgische National Bank |
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| Year | 1873 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | DIE GROSSHERZOGLICH LUXEMBURGISCHE NATIONAL BANK zahlt gegen diese Note Zehn Thaler IM 14 THALERFUSSE LUXEMBURG, DEN 1. JULI 1873. 10 (Translation: The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg National Bank Pays against this note Ten Thalers at 14 Thalerfusse Luxembourg, July 1st., 1873.) |
| Reverse description | Printed in green and olive. A large central oval guilloche panel frames two circular medallions, each enclosing a female portrait vignette in profile — one facing right and one facing left — joined at centre by an intricate geometric latticework of interlocking diamond and star motifs. The composition is bordered by dense engine-turned scrollwork, with the numeral 10 repeated in each corner. |
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The Grossherzoglich Luxemburgische National Bank had a short and troubled existence. Established in 1856, it lost its note-issuing privilege in 1873 — the same year this note was dated — when the International Bank of Luxembourg absorbed its functions. Notes of this series were effectively issued into an institution already in its final phase, which makes surviving examples uncommon by circumstance rather than by design.
Luxembourg denominated in Thaler at a moment when the German Thaler itself was being phased out across the Zollverein following unification and the introduction of the Mark in 1871. This note sits at that currency fault line.