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20 Mark
| Issuer | Amtshauptmannschaft Annaberg (District Office of Annaberg) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Size | 143 × 92 mm |
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| Reverse description | Printed in dark brown-black on a dense guilloche underprint with repeated "ZWANZIG MARK" and "20" microtext patterns filling the entire field, the reverse presents a bold Fraktur denomination heading "Zwanzig Mark" at centre with the numeral "20" in rectangular panels at each corner. The serial number is printed in red at upper right, and a circular violet cancellation stamp appears at upper left alongside a red "Entwertet" (cancelled) overprint. A text block at the foot sets out the conditions of validity, referencing the Sächsische Staatszeitung, the Leipziger Zeitung, and the Ministerium des Innern. |
| Reverse lettering | Gutschein Gültig im Bezirke der Amtshauptmannschaft Annaberg Zwanzig Mark Dieser Schein verliert seine Gültigkeit einen Monat nachdem im amtlichen Teile der Sächs. Staatszeitung und der Leipziger Zeitung die Außerkurssetzung der von den sächs. Stadtgemeinden und Bezirksverbänden ausgegebenen Gutscheine dieser Art vom Ministerium des Innern verfügt worden ist. |
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Annaberg-Buchholz, deep in the Erzgebirge, had been a silver-mining center since the early sixteenth century, but by 1918 the district was scraping for something far more mundane: small-denomination emergency money to keep commerce moving as Reichsbank notes drained toward wartime expenditure. The Amtshauptmannschaft — a Saxon administrative tier roughly equivalent to a county executive office — had authority to issue Notgeld under wartime accommodation rules, though the practical impetus was simply that change had become impossible to find.
The DeNG 3 series for this district is modestly scarce in higher grades due to the rough handling these notes received in everyday retail use during the final war months.