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5 Thalers
| Issuer | Königlich Sächsische Staatskasse (Royal Saxon State Treasury) |
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| Year | 1855 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in dark olive-brown intaglio on cream paper, centred on the bold blackletter title 'Fünf Thaler' surmounted by an ornate guilloche cartouche, with two large circular coin-like vignettes at left and right — each enclosed in an elaborate baroque foliate frame — bearing the royal Saxon arms and a crowned portrait medallion respectively. Denomination numerals '5' appear in each corner, and a text block at the lower centre cites the issuing authority and the authorising law of 6 September 1855, followed by two facsimile commissioner signatures. The example shown carries a large red ink cancellation cross and multiple purple 'Ungültig' (invalid) overprint stamps indicating demonetisation. |
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| Reverse description | No second image was provided; the reverse description cannot be independently verified. Based on the note type, the reverse of this Königlich Sächsisches Cassen-Billet characteristically carries a plain or lightly printed cautionary text in German warning against counterfeiting, set within a simple typographic border on unadorned cream paper. |
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Saxon State Treasury notes of this period occupied an awkward administrative position — the Staatskasse was a fiscal agency of the Crown, not a bank of issue in the conventional sense, and the legal authority under which these notes circulated was repeatedly questioned by merchants and rival German states alike. The 1855 series emerged during the years when Saxony was still maneuvering to retain monetary independence within the expanding Prussian commercial orbit.
The Thaler itself was abolished for Saxony with the introduction of the Mark in 1871, making any surviving 1855 example a relic of a denomination that lasted barely another decade and a half after printing.