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10 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt- und Landkreis Aachen |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Teal letterpress note printed on plain paper, with a dense guilloche border framing the entire face. A large central guilloche rosette underprint fills the background, over which the issuer inscription 'Stadt- und Landkreis Aachen.' appears at the top in Gothic script, followed by 'Gutschein über' and the large bold denomination '10 Zehn Mark 10' in the centre. Below the denomination, a four-line legal text sets out the conditions of acceptance and redemption, dated Aachen, den 31. Oktober 1918, flanked by two red circular official seals bearing an eagle, with two manuscript signatures below the titles 'Der Oberbürgermeister' and 'Der Vorsitzende des Kreisausschusses'. A red serial number is printed in the upper right corner. |
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| Reverse description | Entirely teal on plain paper, the reverse carries a repetitive all-over underprint pattern of small stylised eagles arranged in rows across the full field, enclosed within a guilloche border. The central area bears the denomination '10' in large outline numerals flanked on either side by the word 'Mark' in serif type. Circular guilloche rosettes occupy each of the four corners. The printer's imprint 'M. Dumont Schauberg, Köln' appears in small type at the bottom centre. |
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Aachen's municipal emergency issue of 1918 belongs to the broader wave of Großnotgeld that German local authorities were forced to produce as the Reichsbank's coin and small-denomination note supply collapsed under wartime pressure. Stadt- und Landkreis Aachen — a combined urban and rural administrative district — issued under its own name rather than through a single municipal treasury, which gives the issuing authority an unusual dual character for a town-level emission.
M. Dumont Schauberg was a well-established Cologne publishing and printing house, not a specialist security printer, which was entirely typical of Notgeld production — wartime necessity made specialist contracts impossible to maintain.