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100 Mark Badische Bank
| Issuer | Badische Bank |
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| Year | 1890-1907 |
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| Value | 100 Mark |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio-printed note in black on pale green paper, with the Baden coat of arms surmounted by a crowned double-headed eagle at the top centre above the issuer's name in a rectangular cartouche. Two large allegorical vignettes flank the central text: at left, a seated female figure with a child and harvest attributes, at right, a seated female with a putto and mechanical implements, both rendered in fine line-engraved style. The denomination 'Hundert Mark' is set in ornate Gothic script at centre, below which the place and date 'Mannheim, 1. Januar 1907.' appear, with serial numbers in duplex at upper left and right and two manuscript signatures below 'Die Direction:'. |
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| Reverse lettering | MARK RHEIN NECKAR BADISCHE BANK MANNHEIM 100 |
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The Badische Bank was one of four private note-issuing banks that survived Bismarck's 1875 Reichsbank reforms, retaining its right of issue precisely because Baden's regional political establishment pushed back hard enough to matter. That privilege came with strict cover requirements and periodic Reichsbank oversight — this 100 Mark denomination would have been among the higher-value instruments the bank used for commercial settlement rather than everyday retail trade.
G. Naumann's Druckerei in Frankfurt handled the printing throughout the series run, an unusual arrangement given that most comparable German private banks gravitated toward the larger specialist security printers of the period.