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25 Thaler
| Issuer | Deutsche Volksbank zu Eutin |
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| Year | 1870 |
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| Currency | Thaler (1811-1869) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in brown on cream paper and carries a central vignette of a classical domed rotunda with colonnaded portico set amid dense foliage, rendered in fine intaglio engraving. Ten guilloche rosette counters bearing the numeral '25' are arranged symmetrically around the border — four across the top, four across the bottom, and one at each side — forming a decorative frame. A cursive manuscript inscription 'Schlie.' appears at the lower right of the central vignette. |
| Reverse lettering | Schlie. |
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The Deutsche Volksbank zu Eutin was a minor regional cooperative bank operating in the small Oldenburg exclave of Eutin — a town of a few thousand residents that had only recently been absorbed into the newly consolidated German political orbit. This note was issued in 1870, the year the Franco-Prussian War began and the year before the German Empire's proclamation effectively doomed the patchwork of local issuing institutions that had proliferated across the German states.
The 25 Thaler denomination is an awkward, non-standard unit that suggests internal accounting conventions rather than everyday retail use. Few such institutions survived currency unification under the Reichsmark system, and most of their outstanding notes were redeemed and pulped. Survivors are correspondingly rare.