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10 Mark
| Issuer | City of Zeulenroda (Reuss-Obergreiz) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Notgeld issue of the City of Zeulenroda (Reuss-Obergreiz), bearing the denomination 10 Mark in bold letterpress. The design incorporates typical municipal emergency currency elements including the issuing authority's name and date of issue 1918. Decorative borders frame the central text field in a restrained typographic composition characteristic of Thuringian Notgeld issues of the period. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries standard Notgeld reverse text with validity conditions and legal notices pertaining to the emergency currency's acceptance and redemption terms. Ornamental border work surrounds the central text block, consistent with the utilitarian printing style employed for municipal wartime emergency issues. |
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Zeulenroda issued this note in 1918 under the emergency currency provisions that allowed German municipalities to plug the coin and small-denomination note shortages created by wartime metal requisitioning. The principality of Reuss-Obergreiz — one of the smallest sovereign states in the German Empire — had been absorbed into the newly consolidated Reuss principality only in 1902, and by 1918 the entire Thuringian region was scrambling to cover basic transaction needs as the imperial monetary system buckled under four years of war.
At 10 Mark, this sits at the upper end of municipal Notgeld denominations for the period, suggesting it was intended to cover commercial rather than everyday retail transactions.