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10 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Traunstein |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in blue and brown on a cream-coloured paper ground, enclosed within a decorative geometric border with stylised corner ornaments. The issuer's name "Notgeld der Stadtgemeinde Traunstein" appears in bold Fraktur script at the top, with a large central guilloche oval underprint carrying the denomination "Zehn Mark" in blue letterpress; the date "Traunstein, 20. April 1919" is inscribed below the guilloche. The lower portion bears three manuscript signatures for the Bürgermeister, Stadtkämmerer, and Finanzreferent, accompanied by an oval Magistrat seal of the city of Traunstein. |
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| Protection type | Official seal |
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Traunstein is a small Bavarian market town near the Austrian border, and its municipal administration had no business issuing currency — yet the collapse of the Kaiserreich and the catastrophic coin shortage of 1919 left local authorities across Germany doing exactly that. This note belongs to the Notgeld wave that swept Bavaria in the immediate post-war period, when centralized monetary authority had effectively dissolved and communities printed what they needed to keep commerce moving.
The DeNG 3 reference places this firmly in the documented Bavarian municipal series, though Traunstein's issues are uncommon finds outside regional collections. The official seal as the sole security feature reflects how improvised these instruments were — a wax or ink stamp being the only thing standing between a town's scrip and outright forgery.