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2 Mark
| Issuer | Oberamtsbezirk Blaubeuren |
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| Value | 2 Mark |
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| Obverse lettering | 2 · Kriegsgeld · Oberamtsbezirk Blaubeuren Die Statskörperschaft zahlt dem Überbringer zwei Mark — Giltig bis 1. August 1919. Verlängerung vorbehalten. Der Bezirksrat. Vorsitzender: Regierungsrat |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in red-brown on plain paper and presents a bold heraldic composition: the place name 'Blaubeuren' in large Gothic blackletter type runs across the upper field, beneath which a central shield vignette displays the traditional Blaubeuren town arms — a standing figure in medieval costume grasping two antler-like branches. The denomination '2 Mark 2' is set in large Gothic lettering across the lower field, with serial number panels at top and bottom. |
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Oberamtsbezirk Blaubeuren was a district administrative unit in Württemberg, and like hundreds of similar German localities it issued emergency money — Notgeld — during the acute coin shortage that gripped Germany from around 1916 onward. The embossed seal was the issuer's primary hedge against counterfeiting, a low-tech but legally meaningful authentication method for notes produced outside any formal banking framework.
District-level Notgeld from Württemberg is generally less documented than municipal issues, and Blaubeuren's output was small enough that survival rates are uneven across denominations.