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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 description | The obverse is divided into three vertical panels by engraved allegorical vignettes: at left, a bearded male head (labelled RHEIN) rising from decorative foliage, and at right, a female head with flowing hair (labelled DONAU), each flanked by the numeral 2 in a plain rectangular cartouche. The central field carries an oval cameo-style portrait bust in profile within a wreath, above the large blackletter denomination inscription Zwei Gulden and a block of German text stating the note's legal tender status, concluding with the issue date 1. Juli 1849, place Carlsruhe, and the issuer name Großh. Badische General-Staats-Casse. A manuscript signature and an inked official stamp appear in the lower centre, with the series designation Serie R. at lower left and the serial number at upper right. |
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| Reverse lettering | Zwei Gulden Serie R. Nº 422,720. RHEIN DONAU |
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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.