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10 Mark Herzogliche Sparkasse
| Issuer | Herzoglich Braunschweigische Sparkasse (Ducal Brunswick Savings Bank) |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Cream-toned rectangular note with a fine crosshatch guilloche border. The issuer's name 'Herzoglich Braunschweigische Sparkasse' is printed in large Gothic blackletter script across the upper portion, with the denomination 'zehn Mark' set within a ruled red letterpress panel at center. Series designation 'IV lit. E' and a serial number appear to the left and right respectively, with two manuscript signatures at lower left, a circular official stamp bearing a ducal crown and lion in blue at center, and the overprint 'Unverzinsliches Kriegsnotgeld' in blue script across the lower field. |
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| Reverse lettering | (Translation: This bond is issued to the bearer Duchy of Brunswick Savings Bank Series IV lit. E savings deposit of ten marks issued by the Ducal Savings Bank of Brunswick Brunswick, on 1 Nov. 1918 Non-interest-bearing war emergency money) |
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Emergency money issued under the Darlehnskassenscheine system that proliferated across German states in the final year of the war, when Reichsbank notes had effectively vanished from everyday commerce through hoarding and military requisition. The Herzoglich Braunschweigische Sparkasse was one of dozens of savings institutions granted temporary authority to issue notgeld at this level — 10 Mark was unusually high for local emergency paper, most of which circulated in Pfennig denominations.
Brunswick's ducal savings bank had been operating since 1765, making it one of the older German provincial institutions to issue wartime paper. The cardboard composition is characteristic of 1918 notgeld, when even paper stocks were rationed.