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10 Mark Allied Occupation
| Issuer | Allied Military Authority |
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| Year | 1944 |
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| Value | 10 Mark |
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| Obverse description | Blue on light blue guilloche underprint. The left border is occupied by an elaborate acanthus scroll vignette in dark blue-grey, with denomination numeral '10' set within an oval cartouche at upper left and repeated at lower left. The central field carries the authority inscription and denomination text in bold blue letterpress against the wavy guilloche background, with a nine-digit serial number printed in blue below center. To the right, a decorative guilloche medallion encloses a large block letter 'M', framed by ornamental latticework. The header panel at top reads 'ALLIIERTE MILITÄRBEHÖRDE' in white on a dark blue band. |
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| Reverse lettering | ALLIIERTE MILITÄRBEHÖRDE M (Translation: Allied Military Authority) |
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The Allied Military Authority mark notes were printed in both the United States and the Soviet Union under a wartime agreement that gave Moscow the same plates and paper stock used by the American presses. The Soviets printed enormous additional quantities with no coordinated accounting — an arrangement that almost immediately generated inflation problems in the occupation zones, since Soviet-issued notes were indistinguishable from American-printed ones and flooded the market well beyond any planned supply figure.
Forbes Lithograph, a Boston-area commercial printer, was one of several contractors brought in for the U.S. run. The 12.175 million figure here covers only one production tranche of a much larger and ultimately uncontrolled issue.