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10 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Altona (City of Altona) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark grey-green on cream paper, with the same scroll-motif letterpress border as the obverse and a large repeating brown underprint of the Altona city arms. At the centre, a bold denomination vignette composed of the numeral '10' surmounted by a decorative ribbon cartouche and flanked symmetrically by elaborate sprays of stylised foliage and floral stems in intaglio-style printing, with 'Mark' lettered below in Gothic script. The printer's imprint 'H. W. Köbner & Co. G. m. b. H., Altona' appears in small type at the foot of the note. |
| Reverse lettering | 10 Mark H. W. Köbner & Co. G. m. b. H., Altona |
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Altona was an independent Prussian city in 1918 — administratively separate from Hamburg, though the two cities shared a border so tight that locals joked you could sneeze in one and catch cold in the other. This note is municipal emergency money, Notgeld issued as the imperial government's wartime coinage policies stripped small denominations from everyday commerce. H. W. Köbner & Co. GmbH printed it locally, which was the practical choice when paper and transport logistics were already strained.
Altona was formally incorporated into Hamburg in 1937 under the Greater Hamburg Act, erasing the municipal identity that authorized this issue.