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5 Gulden
| Issuer | Landgräflich Hessische concessionierte Landesbank |
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| Year | 1855 |
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| Value | 5 Gulden |
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| Obverse description | Central denomination numeral flanked on left and right by female busts supported by angel figures, with the value rendered in both Latin and Arabic numerals beneath the vignettes. The bank name and issue date appear in the lower central panel, with a serial number at the foot of the note and the series designation at the upper right. The overall design employs fine typographic and engraved elements typical of mid-nineteenth-century German state banknotes. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse reproduces the obverse composition in mirror image, presenting the same central denomination, flanking female bust vignettes with angel supports, and dual numeral denomination panels in a symmetrical arrangement. |
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The Landgräflich Hessische concessionierte Landesbank was the state-chartered bank of Hesse-Kassel, operating under the authority of the Landgrave — a title already something of an anachronism by the 1850s, as the Electorate had been abolished and restored repeatedly through the Napoleonic period. This note dates from the bank's operation under Elector Friedrich Wilhelm I's reconstituted regime, just seven years before Hesse-Kassel was annexed outright by Prussia following the Austro-Prussian War of 1866, at which point the bank's notes became worthless overnight.
Small-denomination Gulden notes from Hesse-Kassel in this period are genuinely scarce — the political disruption of 1866 meant redemption was chaotic and survival rates were low.