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20 Mark
| Issuer | Distrikts-Gemeinde Fürth i.B. (District Community of Fürth, Bavaria) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Size | 120 x 76 mm |
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| Obverse description | Brown and tan Notgeld note with a central oval vignette of two allegorical figures flanking a large decorative basket. The denomination NOTGELD / ZWANZIG / MARK is printed in bold letterpress within a rectangular frame at centre. A text box below states payment terms dated 8 November 1918, with issuer imprint Distrikts-Gemeinde Fürth i.B. and a manuscript signature. Validity date GÜLTIG BIS 1. FEBR. 1919 appears upper left; serial number upper right. |
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| Obverse lettering | GÜLTIG BIS 1. FEBR. 1919 No 000933 NOTGELD ZWANZIG MARK Diesen Betrag zahlen bis einschließlich 1. Febr. 1919 die Kassen der unterfertigten Distriktsgemeinde, die bayer. Girozentrale od. deren Zahlstellen ohne Legitimationsprüfung dem Einlieferer des Scheines, soferne die aufgedruckte Nummer unversehrt ist. Am 8. November 1918. Distriktsgemeinde Fürth i.B.: MARK |
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Fürth im Wald — a small border town in the Upper Palatinate, not to be confused with Fürth near Nuremberg — issued this note in 1918 as part of the vast wave of municipal emergency currency that flooded Germany in the final year of the war. The Reichsbank had effectively lost the ability to supply adequate small denomination notes to provincial communities, forcing district administrations to fill the gap themselves. Carl Gerber in Munich was a working commercial printer, not a security firm, which is why the guilloche underprint represents about the limit of what passed for fraud protection on issues like this.