2 Reichsmark overprint: Quittung Wiederaufbauspende

Stuttgart issued this note in 1945 as a reconstruction contribution receipt — "Quittung Wiederaufbauspende" translates literally as "receipt for reconstruction donation," a piece of fiscal theater that dressed up a forced levy as voluntary civic generosity. The overprint was applied to existing Reichsmark stock, a common improvisation in the final weeks of the Reich and the immediate postwar scramble, when municipal authorities issued their own emergency currency before Allied occupation authorities could establish formal monetary controls.

Stuttgart fell to French forces on April 21, 1945. Notes of this kind had an extremely short window of practical use.