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20 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtmagistrat Aschaffenburg (City of Aschaffenburg) |
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| Value | 20 Mark |
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| Obverse description | Dark grey-green letterpress note with a Gothic Fraktur inscription 'Stadt Aschaffenburg' across the upper portion and the large denomination legend 'Zwanzig Mark' dominating the centre. A circular vignette in the middle ground carries the city seal of Aschaffenburg, showing a bishop figure standing beneath a Gothic arch with the Latin legend around the circumference. The four corners each bear a circular guilloche roundel with the numeral '20', and a red serial number appears at lower right above a text block referencing the Kämmereikasse der Stadt Aschaffenburg and bearing the manuscript signature of the Stadtmagistrat. |
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| Reverse lettering | 20 |
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Aschaffenburg's municipal notgeld was issued during the acute small-change famine that gripped German towns from 1918 onward, when Reichsbank notes were being hoarded and coin metal had long since been redirected to the war effort. City magistrates across Bavaria became de facto currency issuers almost by necessity — authorization from Berlin was nominal at best.
The DeNG 3#022.03 reference places this within a documented series, but the 20 Mark denomination sits at the upper end of municipal emergency issues, where questions of redemption backing were rarely answered satisfactorily. Most Stadtmagistrat issues of this class were withdrawn — or simply abandoned — during the hyperinflationary collapse of 1923.