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50 Reichsmark Dresden, Kreditanstalt Sächsischer Gemeinden
| Issuer | Kreditanstalt Sächsischer Gemeinden |
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| Year | 1931 |
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| Printer | C. C. Meinhold & Söhne, G.m.b.H., Dresden |
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| Obverse description | Pink and dark red letterpress on cream paper with a fine guilloche border frame. The heading "GUTSCHEIN" appears in bold blackletter type above "AUFWERTUNGS-SCHULDVERSCHREIBUNG der KREDITANSTALT SÄCHSISCHER GEMEINDEN über Reichsmark 50 Reichsmark". A circular embossed vignette seal appears at lower left, with two manuscript signatures below the issuer name and date "Dresden, am 1. April 1931". |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted cream paper reverse showing bleed-through of the obverse text and guilloche border. A blind-embossed circular seal of the Kreditanstalt Sächsischer Gemeinden is present at the lower right corner, visible in relief against the plain stock. |
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The Kreditanstalt Sächsischer Gemeinden was a municipal credit institution serving Saxon local governments, and its 1931 note issue came at a particularly dire moment — the Brüning austerity government had just enacted emergency financial decrees, and Germany's regional banking sector was fracturing under deflationary pressure. The collapse of the Danat-Bank in July 1931 triggered a nationwide banking crisis within months of this note's issue, making regional municipal paper increasingly suspect in public hands.
C. C. Meinhold & Söhne were a Dresden printing house with a long commercial background rather than a specialist security printer's pedigree, which may explain why the embossed seal carries more of the authentication burden here than a watermark or intaglio work would in a Reichsbank note.