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100 Mark Sächsische Bank
| Issuer | Sächsische Bank zu Dresden |
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| Year | 1890-1911 |
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| Currency | Mark (1872-1917) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is executed entirely in blue-grey and salmon tones with dense ornamental guilloche work covering the entire surface, framed by a scalloped outer border with repeating floral cornerpieces. A large central oval cartouche encloses the numeral '100' in bold relief, itself set within concentric wavy guilloche rings, flanked symmetrically on each side by the word 'MARK' in heavy letterpress. Two arched ribbon banners, one above and one below the central medallion, bear the inscription 'SÄCHSISCHE BANK ZU DRESDEN' in white letters on a dark ground. The printer's imprint 'GIESECKE & DEVRIENT.' appears in small capitals at the lower right, with a handwritten registration entry 'Eingetr. Fol.' and a countersignature at lower left and right respectively. |
| Reverse lettering | SÄCHSISCHE BANK ZU DRESDEN MARK 100 Eingetr. Fol. GIESECKE & DEVRIENT. |
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The Sächsische Bank zu Dresden was one of four German private note-issuing banks that retained the right to circulate their own banknotes after the Reichsbank's establishment in 1876 — the others being the Bayerische, Badische, and Württembergische Notenbanken. This right was explicitly preserved under the Banking Act of 1875 as a political concession to the federated states, not out of any monetary necessity. Dresden's bank kept issuing well into the Imperial period, competing in practice with Reichsbank notes of identical denomination.
Giesecke & Devrient, operating from Leipzig — barely forty kilometers away — handled the printing throughout the series run. The proximity was no accident; G&D had deep institutional ties with Saxon financial authorities dating back decades before German unification.