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10 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Furtwangen |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 10 Mark |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress emergency note printed on plain paper with a dark green underprint and no watermark or pictorial vignette. The denomination numeral '10' appears on both sides of the central text block, which carries the full issue and redemption details in several lines of Gothic typeface. The composition is entirely textual, with no guilloche ornament or illustrative element. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted reverse on grey-toned paper, the blank surface bearing a single cancellation handstamp in purple ink applied diagonally toward the lower centre. Faint fold lines across the face are consistent with a note that passed through circulation prior to cancellation. |
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Furtwangen's municipal authority issued this 10 Mark Notgeld in 1918 as the imperial monetary system buckled under wartime strain. Stadtgemeinde notes of this denomination were unusual — most municipal emergency issues of the period topped out at 1 or 2 Mark, and a 10 Mark piece implied a local treasury confident enough, or desperate enough, to back a more substantial obligation.
Ant. Kämpfe of Jena was a minor commercial printer, not a specialist banknote firm. The choice reflects wartime conditions: security printers were overloaded with Reich-level commissions, leaving municipalities to work with whoever was available.