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10 Mark
| Issuer | Amtskörperschaft Maulbronn (Bezirksrat) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 10 Mark |
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| Obverse description | Uniface Kriegsnotgeld (war emergency note) printed in olive-green on plain paper, with an elaborate guilloche underprint forming interlocking rosette and oval patterns across the entire field. The denomination 'Zehn Mark' is set in large blackletter script at centre, flanked by numeral '10' at lower left and right. The issuing authority legend appears above, date 'Maulbronn, 31. Dezember 1918' below, with a manuscript signature of the Regierungsrat Vorsitzender beneath the 'Bezirksrat' title. A violet cancellation handstamp 'Entwertet / Bezirksrat Maulbronn.' is applied diagonally at upper left, with the serial number printed in red at upper right and lower left. |
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| Reverse lettering | 10 Mark 10 10 Giltig für den Geldverkehr im Oberamtsbezirk MAULBROONN. Giltig bis zum 1. Februar 1919. Verlängerung der Giltigkeitsdauer bleibt vorbehalten. |
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Maulbronn's Bezirksrat issued this note in 1918 as part of the broader German Notgeld wave that swept municipal and district administrations when the Reichsbank simply could not keep small-denomination currency in circulation during the final year of the war. The Amtskörperschaft — the district corporate body, a distinctly Württemberg administrative unit — had the legal authority to issue such emergency money, though the legitimacy of these instruments was always provisional and locally enforced rather than nationally guaranteed.
Printing was contracted to Vereinigte Anstalten in Kaufbeuren, a Bavarian firm that handled Notgeld commissions for issuers well outside Bavaria. The cross-state printing arrangement was entirely routine by 1918.