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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...of Holstein, and Prussia that of Schleswig, while Lauenburg was absolutely ceded to the latter, Austria receiving compensation in money. After the war between Austria and Prussia the Duchies were incorporated with the latter on December 24th, 1866. The currency in Schleswig and Holstein was the mark current, worth about 1s. 2d., divided into 16 schilling. In Lauenburg the currency was that of Mecklenburg, in which 48 schilling were equivalent to a thaler of 3s. The Danish money was also used, in which 96 skilling were equivalent to 1 rigsbankdaler, worth about 2s. 3d. Four skilling Danish were therefore equivalent to 1j schilling of Schleswig-Holstein and 1 i schilling of Lauenburg equal to about i£d. English. Schleswig and Holstein. Date Of Issue.--November Design.--Arms embossed in 15th, 1850. an oval. Paper.--" Dickinson." Impression.--Typographed. Imperforate. On November 15th, 1850, two stamps of 1 and 2 schilling were issued by the Provisional Government, which informed the public of their approaching issue by a circular dated from Kiel, November 4th, preceding. The manufacture of the stamps was entrusted to Messrs. H. W. Kobner and Lemkuhl, printers at Altona, who engaged:o furnish the matrix and patrix dies, with all the necessary material, for 1000 marks ct., and print the stamps at the rate of 10 schilling per 1000. The design consisted of a double-headed eagle, displace on a ground of horizontal lines within a single-lined rectanjr 21 by 18!,mm., in the centre of which was an uncoloured upright oval, with the arms embossed in white: in t-.c upper corners were small upright ov;.. with the letters S. H. (Schleswu Holslein), and in the lower corner were similar ovals for the numerals o' value. Above the central oval «ra "pos...
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