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2 Gulden
| Issuer | Großherzoglich Badische Staats-Casse |
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| Year | 1849 |
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| Size | 121 × 82 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | Zwei Gulden Serie R. Nº 422,720. Großherzoglich Badisches Papier-Geld Carlsruhe, den 1. Juli 1849. Großh. Badische General-Staats-Casse RHEIN DONAU |
| Reverse description | The reverse presents the same engraved design as the obverse, printed in mirror image, as was typical of single-sided notes of this period where the impression shows through the paper. The three-panel allegorical composition with the RHEIN and DONAU busts, the central oval portrait vignette within a wreath, the Zwei Gulden blackletter inscription, and the surrounding German text are all visible in reverse, with the series and serial number also readable in mirror form. |
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Baden's revolutionary year. This note was issued in 1849, the same year the Grand Duchy found itself at the center of the final, desperate phase of the German revolution — the Baden Uprising, which collapsed in July when Prussian troops crushed the last republican holdouts at Rastatt. Whether the Staats-Casse continued authorizing payments through that upheaval or suspended operations is not firmly documented, but the political turbulence almost certainly disrupted normal circulation.
Small-denomination state treasury notes of this period rarely survived in quantity. They circulated hard, and losers in political upheavals don't tend to preserve their paper money.