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20 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Neckarsulm (City Municipality of Neckarsulm) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Stadtgemeinde Neckarsulm. Zwanzig Mark. Dieser Gutschein wird spätestens am 31. Januar 1919 bei der Stadtkasse eingelöst. Neckarsulm, den 15. November 1918. Stadtschultheiss Bürgerausschussobmann Stadtpfleger |
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| Protection description | Circular dry embossed official city seal of Neckarsulm applied to the lower left of the obverse. |
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Neckarsulm's 20 Mark notgeld of 1918 was issued under the emergency currency provisions that allowed German municipalities to plug the coin shortage caused by wartime metal requisitioning. Neckarsulm was a modest industrial town in Württemberg — home to the NSU factory, which had shifted to military production — and like hundreds of similarly sized communes, it printed its own fractional and low-denomination paper to keep local commerce moving.
The embossed seal was the issuing authority's primary authentication method, a low-tech solution that nonetheless deterred casual forgery when centralized oversight was impossible.