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| 正面描述 | Finely engraved allegorical vignette in sepia intaglio print, with a winged angel seated at right holding an hourglass and a caduceus, resting beside an Ionic column. To the left, the Prussian heraldic eagle within a shield is flanked by agricultural implements including a plough and harvest produce at lower center, with sacks of goods at lower left. The central cartouche carries the denomination and issuing authority text on a scroll, framed by an ornate foliate border with the title REICHSKASSENSCHEIN along the upper edge. |
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| 正面铭文 | REICHSKASSENSCHEIN Gesetz vom 30. April 1874 Fünfzig Mark. Berlin den 10. Januar 1882. Reichsschuldenverwaltung. (Translation: Reich Treasury Note. Law of 30 April 1874. Fifty Mark. Berlin, 10 January 1882. Reich Debt Administration.) |
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The Reichskassenschein series was a direct Treasury instrument — issued by the Reichsschuldenverwaltung rather than the Reichsbank, meaning these circulated as state obligations, not banknotes in the conventional sense. The 1882 date places this squarely in the Bismarckian fiscal consolidation period, when the newly unified German state was still building the administrative infrastructure to manage its own public debt independently of the major private and semi-public note-issuing banks that had dominated German circulation before 1871.
The Berlin printing origin is consistent across the series. Paper survivability on these is genuinely poor — the composition was not designed for extended circulation, and four decades of German monetary turbulence before the Reichsmark reform meant most examples were either worn to destruction or rendered worthless and discarded.