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10 Mark
| Issuer | Magistrat der Residenzstadt Wiesbaden |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Grey-green guilloche underprint covers the entire face, with the large denomination title "Zehn Mark" set in ornate Fraktur script at centre. The issuer's text arches across the upper portion, while two facsimile signatures of the Magistrat appear below the denomination, accompanied by a red serial number at lower centre and the numeral "10" at lower right. An embossed dry seal of the Stadt Wiesbaden bearing the city arms is applied at lower left, and the note is dated by the legend "Ausgegeben im Kriegsjahr 1918" along the bottom edge. |
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| Protection description | Dry embossed circular seal of the Stadt Wiesbaden with city coat of arms, applied at lower left of obverse |
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Wiesbaden's municipal government issued this note under the emergency currency provisions that proliferated across German cities from 1914 onward, but the 10 Mark denomination is on the higher end for Notgeld of this period — most municipal issues stayed well below that threshold to cover small daily transactions rather than substitute for Reichsbank notes. The embossed seal was the issuer's primary authentication method, a low-tech solution that nevertheless proved difficult to fake at scale.
The "Residenzstadt" designation in the issuer title reflects Wiesbaden's status as the former ducal capital of Nassau and, after 1866, a favored imperial resort town — a distinction the city administration was evidently still keen to advertise in 1918, even as the war collapsed around it.