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20 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtrat Offenburg (City Council of Offenburg) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 20 Mark |
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| Obverse lettering | Kreishauptstadt Offenburg 20 Zwanzig Mark zahlt die Stadt Offenburg vom 1. Februar 1919 ab bei übergabe dieses Scheines. Kreishauptstadt Offenburg Offenburg 22. Oktober 1918 Der Stadtrat: (Translation: District Capital Offenburg 20 Marks will be paid by the City of Offenburg beginning on the 22nd of October 1918 upon the surrender of this note. District Capital Offenburg Offenburg, the 22nd of October 1918 The City Council ) |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Offenburg's city council issued this note in 1918 under the emergency currency provisions that allowed German municipalities to fill the void left by an increasingly dysfunctional Reichsbank supply chain. The 20 Mark denomination was unusually high for municipal notgeld of this period — most city councils stuck to smaller face values to avoid competing too visibly with official currency.
The watermarked paper is the one technically significant detail here. Most notgeld relied purely on printing complexity for what little security it offered; commissioning watermarked stock suggests either a local paper supplier with the capability on hand or a deliberate effort by Offenburg's council to discourage forgery at a moment when civic confidence in paper money was already badly strained.