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5 Thalers Courant Städtische Bank zu Breslau
| Issuer | Städtische Bank zu Breslau |
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| Year | 1848 |
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| Value | 5 Thalers |
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| Reverse description | Dark blue ink on a yellow underprint; the bank title is inscribed across the top, with the denomination and anchor motifs set within a symmetrical ornamental guilloche pattern at centre. A handwritten serial number and two manuscript signatures appear at the lower portion of the note. |
| Reverse lettering | Note der städtischen Bank zu Breslau. Fuͤnf Thaler Courant 5 Fünf Thaler № 328,084. |
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The Städtische Bank zu Breslau was a municipal savings and lending institution, not a central bank, and its authority to issue circulating notes was legally ambiguous from the start. The 1848 issue emerged directly out of the revolutionary unrest of that year — the March upheaval in Berlin and its provincial echoes created a liquidity crisis that drove local institutions to paper solutions the Prussian state would not have sanctioned in calmer times.
The Pick/Rixen A-prefix signals a note that sits outside the main sequence — catalogued late, surviving in very small numbers, with institutional documentation largely lost when Breslau's civic archives were destroyed in 1945.