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10 Mark
| Issuer | Distrikt Berchtesgaden (Bavaria) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Size | 137 × 92 mm |
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| Reverse description | Cream ground with a bold light green baroque cartouche of scrolling foliate ornament framing the large denomination '10 Mark' in Gothic Fraktur letters at centre. The heading 'Gutschein des Distrikts Berchtesgaden über' is printed in Fraktur across the top, and a small decorative flourish vignette appears immediately below the denomination. A three-line anti-counterfeiting warning in Fraktur occupies the lower field, with the printer's imprint at the very foot; a handwritten serial number appears at the upper right. |
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| Protection type | Official stamp |
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Berchtesgaden's district administration issued this note during the turbulent spring of 1919, when Bavaria briefly fell under the Räterepublik — the short-lived Soviet-style council republic declared in Munich in April. Local emergency currencies proliferated across Bavaria as the central banking system buckled and trade ground to a halt. Whether this particular note was issued before, during, or immediately after the Räterepublik's violent suppression in early May is difficult to pin down precisely, but the timing places it squarely inside one of the most chaotic episodes in Weimar-era German regional history.
L. Vonderthann & Sohn was a local Berchtesgaden printer — the official stamp substitutes for the security printing that a larger operation might have provided.