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10 Mark
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Quedlinburg |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein über Zehn Mark Zahlbar bei sämtlichen städtischen Kassen. Quedlinburg, im Oktober 1918. Der Magistrat No Die Gültigkeit dieses Gutscheins erlischt 4 Wochen nach erfolgtem öffentlichen Aufruf im Quedlinburger Kreisblatt. |
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| Reverse lettering | Gültig in der Stadt Quedlinburg 10 Mark Zehn Mark |
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Quedlinburg's 1918 10 Mark Notgeld was issued by the city magistrate under the emergency currency provisions that proliferated across German municipalities as the imperial financial system buckled in the final year of the war. Hundreds of towns issued their own notes during this period, but relatively few bothered with any security feature at all — the perfin on this example is an unusual precaution for a small-city issue, suggesting the magistrate was at least nominally concerned with unauthorized duplication.
Quedlinburg itself was a minor administrative center in Saxony-Anhalt, far from any major wartime industrial or political significance. The note's survival often depends on whether it was redeemed during the chaotic currency stabilization of the early 1920s.