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1 Reichsmark
| Issuer | Stadt Stuttgart (City of Stuttgart) |
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| Year | 1945 |
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| Value | 1 Mark (1 RM) |
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| Reverse description | The entire reverse is occupied by a halftone photographic vignette of the Neues Schloss (New Palace) in Stuttgart, rendered in grey-green tones, showing the Baroque facade with flanking sculptural gate piers surmounted by a lion and a stag. The denomination '1 RM' appears in bold type at the upper left and upper right corners above the architectural vignette. |
| Reverse lettering | 1 RM 1 RM |
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Stuttgart's municipal authorities issued this note in 1945 under the emergency provisions that allowed German cities and districts to produce local currency (Notgeld) as the Reich's financial infrastructure collapsed. Allied bombing had severely disrupted both supply chains and banking functions across Württemberg by early 1945, and municipal scrip filled the vacuum left by the disappearing Reichsmark supply.
Late-war municipal issues of this type were often printed on whatever paper stock was available locally, and the quality varies considerably within the same series. Stuttgart fell to French forces in late April 1945, after which this note would have had an extremely brief remaining window of practical use.