Catalog
5 Kapeikas Latvia, Mitau, Jelgava
| Issuer | Jelgawas Pilsehtas Walde (Mitausche Stadtverwaltung / Jelgava City Administration) |
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| Year | 1915 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed entirely in red on cream paper, the obverse is framed by a plain double-rule border. The heading 'Jelgawas pilsehtas walde' appears in large bold letterpress type at the top, followed by a redemption clause in Latvian. The denomination '5 peezi kapeikas 5' is set in large display type at centre, flanked by numeral '5' on each side, with a guarantee text below referencing 600,000 rubles secured by municipal assets. A manuscript facsimile signature of the war Bürgermeister of Jelgava appears at lower right, with a serial number and asterisk at lower left. |
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| Obverse lettering | Jelgawas pilsehtas walde apnemas pret scho parahdu sihmi seschu mehneSchuh laika pehz meera noslengschanas 5 peezi kapeikas 5 samaksat. Droschiba par 600,000 rublu isdodemams parahdu sihmem zaur pilsehtas mantibu 1,593,000 rublu wehrtiba pilnigi apgalwota. Schihs parahdu sihmes teek Kursemes waldibas maksajamas weetahs ka maksas lihdseklis preti nemtas. Schihs parahdu sihmas wiltoschana teek stingri sodita. Jadota us pilsehtas domneeku sapulzes nolehmumu no 20 oktobera 1915. Jelgawas kehn. kara birgermeistars. |
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Jelgava's city administration issued this note under German military occupation, which had taken the city — then still widely called Mitau — in late July 1915 as Russian forces withdrew. The bilingual issuing authority name, rendered in both Latvian and German, reflects the administrative reality of a civilian municipal body operating under occupation but retaining local bureaucratic identity. These Latvian city emergency notes of 1915 are among the earliest paper instruments to use Latvian-language text in an official monetary capacity.
Notgeld of this type circulated because small-denomination coinage had vanished from the market almost immediately after war broke out.