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10 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtmagistrat Kaufbeuren (City of Kaufbeuren, Bavaria) |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Kriegsnotgeld der Stadt Kaufbeuren i/Allgäu Zehn Mark zahlt die Stadtkasse Kaufbeuren ohne Ausweis dem Einlieferer dieses Scheines. Kaufbeuren, 15. Oktober 1918. Stadtmagistrat rechtsk. Bürgermeister. No |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in olive-green and terracotta on cream paper, with a central vignette of a fully armed medieval knight in armour, standing before a large unfurled banner bearing an eight-pointed star, with a view of Kaufbeuren's historic town fortifications and towers in the background. The denomination 'Zehn Mark' is set in bold white lettering on dark cartouches at upper left and upper right, with the numeral '10' at lower left and lower right, all within a decorative leafy border. Validity and circulation notices appear in text panels flanking the central vignette. |
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Kaufbeuren's municipal administration issued this 10 Mark note in 1918 as Notgeld — emergency currency produced by hundreds of German cities and towns during the First World War when small-denomination coinage vanished from circulation almost entirely, hoarded or melted down. Vereinigte Kunstanstalten A.G. was itself a Kaufbeuren firm, making this a genuinely local production in both authority and manufacture, which was not always the case with municipal issues of this period.
The 1918 dating places it in the final, chaotic months of the war economy, when confidence in the Imperial Mark was already collapsing ahead of the armistice.