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20 Mark
| Issuer | Bezirksverband der Königlichen Amtshauptmannschaft Döbeln |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 20 Mark |
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| Obverse description | The face of this Notgeld gutschein is printed in dark brown/black on a buff paper ground with an overall fine crosshatch underprint. The four corners carry square vignettes each bearing the numeral '20 MARK' within an ornate frame, while elaborate interlaced guilloche borders run along all four sides. The heading 'Gutschein' appears in large Gothic script at the top, below which runs the issuing authority legend and the denomination 'Zwanzig Mark' in bold blackletter type at centre; the date 'Döbeln, den 8. November 1918' and two manuscript signatures with their role designations (Amtshauptmann and Kassierer) appear in the lower portion, with the printer's imprint along the bottom edge. A central cancellation hole is present. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in the same dark brown ink on buff paper with an identical fine crosshatch ground. A large bold blackletter inscription 'Bezirksverband' arches across the upper field, and 'Döbeln' appears in the same script along the lower margin, flanking an ornate central oval cartouche containing the validity and anti-counterfeiting text in smaller Gothic type. Corner vignettes repeat the '20 MARK' denomination, and a serial number prefixed 'No' is printed vertically along the left margin. A central cancellation hole corresponds to that on the obverse. |
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Döbeln is a mid-sized Saxon administrative district, and this note belongs to the enormous wave of German Notgeld issued in the final year of the First World War, when the imperial monetary system was visibly failing and local authorities — Kreise, Gemeinden, Amtshauptmannschaften — stepped in with emergency scrip to keep small transactions moving. The Bezirksverband tier of administration rarely issued its own currency; most comparable Notgeld came from municipalities rather than district-level bodies, which makes this issuer slightly unusual within the Saxony series.
Ratsdruckerei R. Dulce in Glauchau was a municipal print shop, not a specialist security printer. The mechanical limits of that origin show in surviving examples.