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20 Mark
| Issuer | Bezirksverband der Amtshauptmannschaft Stollberg |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Printer | Ratsdruckerei R. Dute, Glauchau |
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| Obverse description | The face is printed in dark blue on a pale beige cross-hatched underprint and enclosed within an ornate scrollwork border with acanthus-leaf corner ornaments. The denomination "Zwanzig Mark" is rendered in large Gothic Kurrent script at centre, with a tan guilloche underprint bearing the numeral "20" visible behind it. Numerals "20" flanked by the word "Mark" appear in the lower left and right cartouches, while the issuing authority seal is impressed at centre-bottom between the manuscript signatures of the Amtshauptmann and the Kassenvorstand. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark blue on the same beige cross-hatched underprint and is dominated by a large central cartouche of elaborate baroque scrollwork enclosing the issuer's name "Bezirksverband Stollberg" in flowing Kurrent script. Denomination numerals "20" and the word "Mark" are repeated in the upper corners. Two blocks of small-print legal text in German appear in the lower left and right, stating the conditions of validity and the penalties for counterfeiting. |
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Stollberg's Amtshauptmannschaft — a Saxon district administrative unit — joined the flood of German local authorities issuing their own emergency money in the final months of World War I, when Reichsbank notes had effectively disappeared from daily commerce through hoarding and wartime disruption. This 20 Mark note is Notgeld in the truest sense: not a collector piece designed for the philatelic market, but a functional stopgap issued by a bureaucratic body with no particular tradition in monetary affairs.
Ratsdruckerei R. Dute in Glauchau was a municipal print house, not a security printer. The technical limitations of that origin are usually visible in surviving examples.