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10 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtverwaltung Ludwigshafen am Rhein |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Printer | Hofbuchdruckerei Weiß & Hameier, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany |
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| Reverse description | Plain tan-green note with a uniform fine-line guilloche pattern covering the entire field, framed by a thin double-rule border. At centre, the numeral '10' is printed in large bold type against a circular guilloche rosette underprint, flanked symmetrically on each side by the word 'Mark' in italic script. The printer's imprint appears in small type at lower left. |
| Reverse lettering | Mark 10 Mark Hofbuchdruckerei Weiß & Hameier, Ludwigshafen a.Rh. (Translation: Mark 10 Mark / Court Printing House Weiß & Hameier, Ludwigshafen on the Rhine) |
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Ludwigshafen's municipal administration issued this note during the final year of the First World War, when the German imperial government had effectively lost control of the money supply at the local level. Stadtgeld of this type — emergency municipal paper — proliferated across Germany from 1914 onward as small coin disappeared into hoarding and metal drives. Weiß & Hameier, printing locally, would have been producing these under considerable material constraints; paper quality in German commercial printing deteriorated sharply after 1916.
Ludwigshafen was a major BASF industrial center, which made its municipal finances unusually bound to wartime chemical production.