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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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| Obverse description | Black letterpress on white paper within an ornate guilloche border frame; the municipal coat of arms of Breslau (Wrocław) occupies the upper centre. The bank title is set across the top, with the denomination expressed in full word form at centre over eleven manuscript signatures at the foot of the note. A large faint letter 'B' forms a ghosted underprint at centre, and a handwritten serial number appears at upper right. |
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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. |
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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.