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20 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Emmendingen (City of Emmendingen, Baden) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Size | 140 × 90 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadt Emmendingen Gutschein über Zwanzig Mark Emmendingen, den 30. Okt. 1918. Der Gemeinderat: Diese Scheine werden spätestens zum 1. Februar 1919 zur Einziehung und Einlösung aufgerufen werden. 20 Mark |
| Reverse description | Brown letterpress design on a pale rose guilloche underprint. A central oval vignette presents a detailed view of the Emmendingen market square (Marktplatz) with the town hall and church tower in the background, framed by decorative scroll-and-ribbon borders. The inscription 'Stadt Emmendingen' appears on a curved banner at the top, while the denomination numeral '20' is repeated in each of the four corners within ornate rosette cartouches, each accompanied by the word 'Mark' on flanking ribbon scrolls. An anti-counterfeiting warning text occupies a rectangular panel below the central vignette. |
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Emmendingen's 20 Mark notgeld from 1918 belongs to the first wave of municipal emergency currency that flooded southwestern Germany as the imperial banking system buckled under wartime strain. Small towns and cities across Baden were authorized — or simply took it upon themselves — to issue provisional paper to address the acute shortage of coin and small denomination notes. The Dölter firm, a local Emmendingen printer, handled production, which kept costs down but also meant no sophisticated security features.
Locally printed municipal issues like this were inherently vulnerable to counterfeiting, though enforcement in 1918 was essentially theoretical.