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10 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Uerdingen am Rhein (City of Uerdingen on the Rhine) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 10 Marks |
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| Obverse lettering | 10 MARK Zehn Mark Dieser Geldschein wird von allen Kassen der Stadt Uerdingen bis zum 1. Februar 1919 in Zahlung genommen. Der Zeitpunkt, an dem er seine Gültigkeit verliert, wird noch bekannt gemacht werden Uerdingen am Rhein. den 18. November 1918. Der Bürgermeister |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in grey-blue and centres on a panoramic vignette of the Uerdingen am Rhein waterfront as seen from the Rhine, with moored river vessels in the foreground, a quayside wall, and the town skyline — dominated by a tall Gothic church steeple — receding into the background. The denomination numeral '10' appears in each of the four corners within angular frame elements. A curved ribbon banner at the lower centre carries the inscription 'Stadt Uerdingen am Rhein' in Fraktur lettering. |
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Uerdingen, a small industrial town on the lower Rhine, was among the hundreds of German municipalities that issued their own emergency paper money — Notgeld — during 1918 as coin shortages bit hard and the imperial monetary system buckled under wartime strain. The city's note-issuing authority here is the municipality itself, not a bank or savings institution, which was common for smaller localities that lacked a formal banking partner willing to take on the administrative burden.
Ten marks was on the higher end for municipal Notgeld of this period; most issues clustered around 50 Pfennig to 5 Mark. Whether this denomination actually circulated heavily or was absorbed into the collector trade almost immediately after issue is an open question — by late 1918, speculative hoarding of Notgeld by collectors had already distorted circulation patterns nationwide.