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2 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Cöln (City of Cologne) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 2 Mark |
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| Obverse lettering | 2 Gutschein über Zwei Mark Stadt Cöln Dieser Gutschein wird von allen stadtischen und andern öffentlichen Kassen in Zahlung genommen. Er verliert seine Gultigkeit einem Monat nach Aufkundigung in den Cölner Ortsblättern. Die Stadtgemeinde Cöln haftet für die Einlösung. Cöln, den 12, November 1918 Adenauer |
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| Reverse lettering | 2 Gutschein über Zwei Mark Stadt Cöln Dieser Gutschein wird von allen stadtischen und andern öffentlichen Kassen in Zahlung genommen. Er verliert seine Gultigkeit einem Monat nach Aufkundigung in den Cölner Ortsblättern. Die Stadtgemeinde Cöln haftet für die Einlösung. Cöln, den 12, November 1918 Adenauer (Translation: Bezahlt = Paid) |
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Cologne issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — during the final years of World War One as coin shortages became acute and the Reichsbank struggled to supply smaller denominations to municipalities. This 2 Mark piece is signed by Konrad Adenauer, then serving as lord mayor of Cologne, a position he held from 1917 until the French occupation authorities removed him in 1926. His signature appears on a great many Cologne Notgeld issues from this period, which makes them modestly collectible beyond their face value as wartime scrip.
W. Peipers & Co. was a local Cologne printer, which was standard practice for Notgeld — municipalities typically contracted nearby firms rather than specialist security printers.