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100 Mark Die Frankfurter Bank
| Issuer | Die Frankfurter Bank |
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| Year | 1890 |
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| Currency | Mark (1873-1923) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in orange and blue on a dense guilloche underprint covering the entire field, the design being the mirror image of the obverse with two oval female portrait vignettes in intaglio at left and right, blue '100' roundels at upper corners, and two circular vignettes at lower centre. A blue rectangular cartouche at lower left bears the control inscription, while a handwritten control signature appears in a corresponding cartouche at lower right. |
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| Protection type | Guilloche underprint |
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Die Frankfurter Bank was one of a handful of German private issuing banks still operating under the transitional framework that followed unification in 1871. The Reichsbank had been established in 1876 specifically to consolidate and eventually eliminate these regional note-issuing privileges, and by 1890 the pressure on private issuers was already acute. Frankfurt's bank held on longer than most, but its circulation rights were formally extinguished in 1901.
The guilloche underprint was the era's primary mechanical deterrent against lithographic counterfeiting — engine-turned lathe work that was genuinely difficult to reproduce by hand.