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10 Marks
| Issuer | Stadtkasse Rendsburg (City of Rendsburg, Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein) |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in red and black on plain paper, enclosed within a dotted border. A large rosette guilloche vignette occupies the left portion, alongside a vertical red denomination panel reading '10 MARK'. The upper right displays a fine crosshatch guilloche underprint over which the large red denomination 'MARK' is letterpress-printed, with a serial number above. The lower right panel carries the redemption text, issue date 'Rendsburg, den 10. Oktober 1918', and two manuscript signatures, with a pink 'Entwertet' (cancelled) overprint applied vertically at the left margin. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in red and black, enclosed within a decorative dotted and scalloped border. Vertical denomination panels reading '10 MARK' in alternating red and black flank both sides. The central field carries three horizontal guilloche banderoles in red, within and between which the issuer inscription 'NOTGELD DER STADT Rendsburg' and the denomination 'Zehn Mark' are letterpress-printed in bold black type. A pink 'Entwertet' cancellation overprint is applied vertically at the right margin. |
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Rendsburg issued this 10 Mark note in 1918 under the wartime Notgeld provisions that permitted municipalities to issue emergency currency as metal coinage disappeared from circulation and the Reichsbank struggled to meet local demand. The Stadtkasse — the city treasury, not a commercial bank — acted as direct guarantor, which was common for smaller Prussian towns without an independent savings institution large enough to sponsor the issue.
Rendsburg sits at the Kiel Canal, which made it a significant military-logistics node during the war. Local purchasing pressure was correspondingly higher than in comparable inland towns, which likely accelerated the need for supplementary municipal paper.