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10 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Alfeld (Leine) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Size | 138 × 85 mm |
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| Obverse description | Typographed Notgeld voucher printed in olive-green and black on a fine geometric guilloche underprint covering the entire field. The issuer name 'STADT ALFELD (LEINE)' is set in bold letterpress at the top centre, with the denomination legend 'GUTSCHEIN ÜBER ZEHN MARK' in large display type below, flanked left and right by large numeral '10' vignettes in ornate columnar frames. Two symmetrical baroque scroll vignettes flank the central text, with the date 'Alfeld (Leine), 1. Dezember 1918' and the authority lines 'Der Magistrat' and 'Das Bürgervorsteher-Kollegium' with two manuscript signatures appearing in the lower half. |
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| Obverse lettering | STADT ALFELD (LEINE) GUTSCHEIN ÜBER ZEHN MARK Alfeld (Leine), 1. Dezember 1918. Der Magistrat Das Bürgervorsteher-Kollegium Nr. MARK |
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Alfeld an der Leine is a small mill town in Lower Saxony, and its 1918 emergency currency — Notgeld in the strict wartime sense, not the decorative collector issues that followed — was a practical response to the acute coin shortage that gripped German municipalities as the war drained metal from circulation. Town administrations were authorized to fill that gap themselves, which is why a modest Leine valley community ends up as a note-issuing authority.
J. C. König & Ebhardt of Hannover were primarily a paper and stationery house, not a dedicated security printer, which shows in the relatively plain execution typical of their municipal commissions from this period.