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| Uitgever | Stadt Kreuznach (City of Kreuznach) |
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| Jaar | 1917 |
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| Valuta | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Plain brown paper Notgeld coupon printed in black Fraktur (Gothic) typeface throughout. The heading reads 'Gutschein der Stadt Kreuznach' across the top, with the large numeral '10' at centre-left and the denomination 'Pfennig.' to its right. Below, the issue date 'Kreuznach, den 21. Mai 1917.' is set in smaller Fraktur script, followed by the authorization line 'Der Bürgermeister:' and a large manuscript signature of the mayor in violet ink occupying the lower half of the note. |
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| Opschrift keerzijde | Einlösung erfolgt bis auf Weiteres bei der Stadtkasse bei Rückgabe von mindestens 10 Scheinen. |
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Kreuznach's 1917 notgeld issue belongs to the first wave of municipal emergency currency that flooded Germany as the Reichsbank's coin supply collapsed under wartime metal requisitions. By mid-1917, even small denominations in copper and nickel had largely vanished from everyday commerce, hoarded or melted, forcing hundreds of German municipalities to print their own stopgap paper.
The official stamp serves as the authentication mechanism here — the city's seal applied by hand to each note, a labor-intensive process that also makes unstamped examples technically invalid regardless of condition.