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20 Mark
| Issuer | Elberfeld, City of |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
| Protection description | The note is printed on watermarked paper; the watermark is not readily visible under normal examination. |
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Elberfeld's 20 Mark Notgeld from 1918 belongs to the wave of emergency municipal issues that flooded Germany as the Imperial government lost its grip on coin supply during the war's final year. Cities, towns, cooperatives, and even individual factories printed their own money because Reichsbank notes were being hoarded and small-denomination coinage had effectively vanished from circulation. R. L. Friderichs & Co. was a local Elberfeld printer — not a specialist security press — which makes the inclusion of a watermark noteworthy; many comparable municipal issues dispensed with such features entirely.
Elberfeld itself ceased to exist as an independent city in 1929, absorbed into the newly consolidated Wuppertal.