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10 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Oldenburg (City of Oldenburg) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | No obverse image or descriptive data has been supplied for this note; a detailed description of the face cannot be produced from available sources alone. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in Gothic Fraktur blackletter typeface on plain white paper, arranged in two distinct text blocks. The upper block sets out the acceptance clause, confirming that all public treasuries in the Duchy of Oldenburg and the Oldenburg banks with their branches will honour the note, and stipulating that the right of redemption lapses if the note is not presented by 1 February 1919, or by any extended due date. The lower block carries the statutory Kriegsnotgeld anti-counterfeiting warning referencing §§ 146 and 147 of the Strafgesetzbuch, prescribing a minimum sentence of two years' penal servitude for forgery or circulation of forged notes. |
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Oldenburg's municipal administration issued this note in the autumn of 1918 as the imperial monetary system buckled under wartime strain. Like most Stadtgeld of this period, it was a local stop-gap — legal within the city's commercial network but not universally accepted beyond it. Gerhard Stalling, an Oldenburg-based printer with a long background in book and commercial printing, handled the production locally, which was unusual enough; most comparable German cities contracted larger specialist firms.
The 10 Mark denomination put this note at the upper end of municipal emergency issues, where hoarding was common and genuine circulation correspondingly thin.