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20 Thaler
| Issuer | Weimarische Bank |
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| Year | 1854 |
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| Currency | Thaler (1741-1870) |
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| Obverse lettering | 20 - 20 Die Weimarische Bank zahlt gegen diese Note Zwanzig Thaler im Vierzehn-Thalerfuße. Weimar, den 4. Februar 1854. Der Verwaltungs-Rath. Der Regierungs-Commissar. Die Direction. |
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| Reverse lettering | Lit. H. No 01084 |
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The Weimarische Bank was chartered in 1853 as a private note-issuing institution in the Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, one of a cluster of small German state banks that proliferated in the years before the Reichsbank centralized issue in 1876. This note, printed by Giesecke & Devrient in Leipzig just two years after that firm's founding, is an early product of what became one of the world's dominant banknote printers.
The 20 Thaler denomination was substantial — several weeks' wages for a craftsman — which means surviving examples were rarely folded into everyday commerce. The Weimarische Bank's circulation area was correspondingly small, bounded by a duchy of under 300,000 inhabitants.