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10 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Mühlhausen in Thüringen (City of Mühlhausen, Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | Two circular architectural vignettes in fine letterpress engraving are set against an elaborate green guilloche underprint with scrolling foliate ornaments. The left vignette depicts the Inneres Frauentor, a medieval city gate of Mühlhausen with its domed tower, captioned below; the right vignette shows the Rathaus (Town Hall), a multi-storey historic structure with arched ground-floor openings. Between the vignettes, a starburst guilloche frame encloses the denomination value '10 MARK' in a bold rectangular panel. The red serial number is printed at upper left, and the printer's imprint 'OHLENROTH, ERFURT' appears at the lower centre. |
| Reverse lettering | № 01896 Inneres Frauentor 10 MARK Rathaus OHLENROTH, ERFURT |
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Mühlhausen's 1918 emergency issue belongs to the vast wave of Notgeld that flooded Germany as the imperial monetary system buckled under wartime coin hoarding. The city — best known historically as the site of Thomas Müntzer's radical commune during the 1525 Peasants' War — was one of hundreds of German municipalities forced to print their own small-denomination scrip simply to keep local commerce moving.
Ohlenroth was a workhorse regional printer based in Erfurt, handling Notgeld contracts for multiple Thuringian issuers during this period. The Senckmann and Klatt signatures represent municipal administrative authority rather than any banking institution — there was none involved.