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100 Mark Bayerische Notenbank
| Issuer | Bayerische Notenbank |
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| Year | 1875-1900 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | BAYERISCHE BANKNOTE. Zahlbar mit HUNDERT MARK München, den 1. Januar 1900. Bayerische Notenbank Königl. Commissär 100 |
| Reverse description | Typographic and ornamental reverse printed in dark brown and blue-green on a cream guilloche ground, with the denomination "Hundert Mark" in large Gothic blackletter script at centre, flanked by large numeral "100" panels within ornate frames at left and right. The upper portion carries a blank curved panel reserved for the watermark band, beneath which three rosette guilloche medallions each bear the numeral "100". The lower section contains a double-printed anti-counterfeiting legal warning text in German, with serial numbers repeated at lower left and lower right and a handwritten register entry at lower left. |
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The Bayerische Notenbank was one of several German state banks that retained note-issuing authority after unification in 1871 — a political concession wrung out of Bismarck's Reich, which had initially intended the Reichsbank to monopolize currency issuance. Bavaria negotiated hard to keep its bank, and these notes circulated alongside Reichsbank issues as fully legal tender throughout the Empire.
Giesecke & Devrient had been the Bayerische Notenbank's printer from early in the bank's history, and the Leipzig firm's intaglio work on this series is technically careful. The watermark is the primary anti-counterfeiting measure — a deliberate choice over more complex security printing, consistent with the bank's conservative approach to note design across the entire late-nineteenth-century period.