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2 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Baden-Baden |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 2 Mark |
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| Obverse description | Salmon-pink note with an overall fine hatched guilloche underprint and a decorative wavy-line border in red. The issuer's name in Gothic blackletter script appears at the top centre, above the word 'Gutschein' and the denomination 'ZWEI MARK' set within a bold arched cartouche at centre. Diamond-shaped corner numerals '2' are placed at all four corners, and below the cartouche the date 'Baden-Baden, den 22. Oktober 1918.' is printed alongside the authorising legend 'Der Stadtrat:' with a circular red official stamp and a manuscript signature. A redemption notice in small Gothic type occupies the lower portion of the note. |
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| Reverse lettering | 2 E. Kölblin |
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Baden-Baden's municipal government issued this note in 1918 as part of the vast Notgeld wave that swept German towns when the Reichsbank could no longer guarantee adequate small-denomination coinage. E. Kölblin was a local Baden-Baden printer, and the decision to print municipally rather than source from a larger commercial house was common among smaller Gemeinden that needed notes quickly and cheaply. The result is typically modest in execution — functional rather than decorative, reflecting the straightforward early-war Notgeld style before municipalities began competing on artistic merit in 1921–22.