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10 Thalers
| Issuer | Commerz-Bank in Lübeck |
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| Year | 1865 |
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| Printer | Giesecke+Devrient (Giesecke & Devrient), Leipzig, Germany (1852-date) |
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| Obverse description | The central text panel, carrying the full payment obligation in German script, is flanked by two allegorical figures facing inward — one at the left margin and one at the right. Denomination numerals occupy the upper-left and upper-right corners, each set within ornamental guilloche cartouches, while a third rendering of the face value appears as an underprint below the central inscription block. |
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| Reverse lettering | COMMERZ-BANK IN LÜBECK Lit. A. Ausgefertigt: |
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The Commerz-Bank in Lübeck was a private commercial bank operating during the final years of the North German thaler system, before the political unification of 1871 and the subsequent introduction of the Mark swept away the patchwork of state and private currencies. This 10 Thaler note, printed by Giesecke & Devrient in Leipzig, belongs to that narrow window when Lübeck still functioned as a sovereign free city with its own monetary arrangements.
G&D had been producing banknotes since 1852, the year of the firm's founding, and by the mid-1860s were already the dominant security printer in the German states. The Lübeck thaler itself was formally discontinued following the Coinage Treaty of 1857, making notes denominated in thalers increasingly anachronistic by 1865 — issued against a unit already in managed decline.