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5 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Neheim (City of Neheim) |
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| Size | 95 × 65 mm |
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| Obverse description | Multicolored notgeld with a bold gothic header inscription across the top. Three central vignettes are arranged horizontally: the left oval shows the Neheim town hall in detailed architectural rendering, the centre presents the municipal coat of arms with a white eagle on a blue shield beneath a battlemented tower, and the right oval depicts a rocky riverside landscape. A gold guilloche underprint frames the composition, with a text panel below carrying the validity clause and a manuscript signature alongside a printed serial number. |
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| Reverse description | Predominantly gold-yellow underprint with a bold gothic header at top and large numeral '5' in blue to each side. A central oval vignette in blue and black portrays a lively genre scene of figures in traditional regional dress gathered around a table, with one figure carrying a large platter. Circular lettering runs around the perimeter of the oval medallion, and the issuer's name appears in large gothic characters across the lower margin. |
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Neheim is a small industrial town in the Sauerland district of Westphalia, and this note belongs to the vast proliferation of German Notgeld — emergency municipal currency — issued primarily between 1914 and 1923 when central government coinage and banknotes failed to meet local transactional needs. Louis Koch of Halberstadt was a regional commercial printer who handled Notgeld contracts for numerous smaller municipalities, working without the engraving infrastructure of larger houses like Giesecke & Devrient.
Koch is credited as both printer and engraver here, which in practice often meant in-house platemaking of modest quality rather than specialist intaglio work.