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10 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Donaueschingen (City of Donaueschingen) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 10 Mark |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of the Donaueschingen town hall rendered in a detailed letterpress engraving, set within an ornate cartouche with scrollwork borders. The denomination 'Zehn Mark' is printed in large Gothic blackletter script across the centre, with the city arms — a crowned shield bearing a wheel — in a decorative surround at the right. A serial number appears at the top, and marginal text on the lower left and right carries validity and anti-counterfeiting notices; a red 'Ungültig' (invalid) cancellation overprint is applied diagonally across the face. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a richly coloured multicolour letterpress composition centred on a large oval vignette of an allegorical group — a seated female figure with a child and a lamb, rendered in intaglio-style engraving within a decorative rosette underprint in red and olive. Flanking the central oval are two circular portrait medallions: at left, a woman in traditional Black Forest costume; at right, a man in regional dress, both set within ornamental guilloche rings. A landscape vignette of a church or abbey amid wooded hills occupies the upper centre, and the numeral '10' appears in bold at both upper corners. |
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Donaueschingen's 1918 emergency issue belongs to the first wave of German municipal notgeld — scrip produced as small-denomination coinage vanished from circulation during the war. The Uhland'sche Buchdruckerei in Stuttgart was a regional commercial printer, not a specialist banknote house, and the production quality reflects that.
Donaueschingen sits in the Black Forest near the traditional source of the Danube, a town of modest size with no particular monetary infrastructure of its own — which is precisely why the city administration turned to a Stuttgart print shop rather than any established security printer.