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| Emittent | Reichsschuldenverwaltung (Imperial Debt Administration) |
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| Jahr | 1914 |
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| Im Umlauf bis | 29 April 1924 |
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| Vorderseitenbeschreibung | Printed entirely in red letterpress on light paper, the face carries a dense overall guilloche underprint in the same colour. The issuing authority's name arches across the top, flanked by ornamental side panels enclosing the denomination numeral "2"; the issuance text with date "12. August 1914" is centred below, with the red circular seal of the Reichsschuldenverwaltung at lower right accompanied by an embossed dry seal of the same authority. A statutory anti-counterfeiting warning runs in small type across the lower margin. |
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| Rückseitenbeschreibung | Printed wholly in red, the reverse is organised around an elaborate guilloche composition in which two large circular rosettes flank a central vignette of the Imperial German eagle bearing a crest shield, the whole enclosed within an ornate cartouche of interlocking geometric and foliate scrollwork. The legend "Darlehenskassenschein" arches across the top, the denomination figure "2" with "Mark" appears at upper left and upper right, and "Zwei Mark" in decorative Gothic script runs along the bottom. |
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The Darlehenskassenscheine — literally "loan treasury notes" — were emergency small-denomination currency authorized in August 1914 within days of the war declaration, explicitly designed to replace silver coinage that was being hoarded by a nervous public. The Reichsschuldenverwaltung issued them under the Darlehenskassengesetz rather than through the Reichsbank, a jurisdictional distinction that mattered legally even if the public largely ignored it.
Pick 54 is distinguished from the nearly identical Pick 52 by its red underprint and red embossed seal — earlier states of this note were issued without the underprint. The red seal variant was introduced as a precaution against counterfeiting, which had already become a problem by late 1914.