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10 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Coblenz (City of Koblenz) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress on a pale blue guilloche underprint. The header reads 'Stadt Coblenz' in Gothic script, flanked by circular denomination medallions bearing the numeral '10' at left and right. The central text in large Fraktur script reads 'Gutschein über Zehn Mark', below which a redemption clause is printed in smaller Gothic type. At lower left, a circular embossed municipal seal is visible, and at lower right the crowned arms of Koblenz appear within a cartouche framed by foliate ornaments. The note is dated 'Coblenz, den 15. November 1918' and bears a manuscript signature of the Oberbürgermeister, with a red cancellation stamp overlaid across the face. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in grey-green on plain paper, the reverse carries a central architectural vignette of a Koblenz cityscape with prominent church towers and a historic bridge in the foreground, rendered in fine line engraving. Flanking the central vignette are two symmetrical panels, each inscribed 'Gutschein über 10 Mark' in Gothic Fraktur script. The header reads 'Stadt Coblenz' across the full width, and the entire composition is enclosed within a decorative border of foliate ornaments and fine ruled lines. |
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Koblenz issued this Notgeld note in 1918 under the acute paper money shortage that gripped German municipalities as the imperial financial system buckled under war strain. Stadt Coblenz — the city's name was still rendered in its older spelling — was among hundreds of German towns forced to issue their own emergency small-denomination currency when coin and Reichsbank notes dried up at the local level.
The 10 Mark denomination is on the higher end for municipal Notgeld of this period, most of which clustered around 50 Pfennig to 2 Mark. That suggests this was intended for larger transactions that Reichsbank notes could no longer reliably service by late 1918, not simply as change.