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10 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Furtwangen |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Dark grey letterpress note framed by an ornate outer border with scrollwork corner cartouches containing the denomination numeral '10'. The central field carries the Furtwangen municipal coat of arms — a castle tower with fir trees set within an elaborate guilloche surround — flanked by finely rendered vignettes of Black Forest fir branches with cones at left and sunflowers at right. The denomination 'Zehn Mark' is printed in large Gothic blackletter script across the centre, with the issuer and note type inscribed at the top and a two-signature panel below, identifying the Bürgermeister and Ratschreiber, followed by a validity clause in Gothic script along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a large woodcut-style scenic vignette of the Black Forest landscape: a skier in period dress traverses a snow-covered hillside before a panorama of rolling wooded hills and fir trees, with a large coniferous tree mass rising at upper left. The denomination 'Zehn Mark' appears in prominent Gothic blackletter script at the top beneath the title 'Stadtkassenschein', while the lower portion carries the place and date of issue and the anti-counterfeiting warning 'Nachahmung strafbar'. The numeral '10' is set in an ornate cartouche at lower left, and the whole composition is enclosed within a foliate branch border. The designer's signature 'K. Lederle' appears at the lower right corner. |
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Furtwangen, deep in the Black Forest, was a clockmaking town — and its 1918 emergency currency came from that same local economy rather than any banking infrastructure. This is Notgeld in the strict wartime sense, not the decorative collector-targeted issues that flooded Germany after 1920. The distinction matters: 1918 municipal notes were genuine stopgap instruments, issued because small-denomination Reichsmark coinage had been hoarded or melted out of circulation under wartime metal pressures.
K. Lederle's involvement suggests local production — the note was almost certainly printed in-town rather than contracted to a specialist firm, which accounts for the modest execution typical of these functional wartime pieces.