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5 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtmagistrat Bayreuth (City of Bayreuth) |
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| Year | 1918-1923 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in brown on a cream ground and enclosed within a decorative guilloche border with a diamond-pattern outer frame. The denomination title 'Gutschein über Fünf Mark' is set in elaborate Fraktur script across the upper and central fields, with the numeral '5' rendered in large ornamental script at the foot of the note. The issuing authority, date of issue (Bayreuth, 22. Oktober 1918), and the designation 'Stadtmagistrat' appear in the lower central field, accompanied by two manuscript signatures and the anti-counterfeiting warning 'Nachahmung strafbar.' flanking the numeral on both sides. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein über Fünf Mark der Stadt Bayreuth. Bayreuth, 22. Oktober 1918. Stadtmagistrat: Stadtkämmerer Nachahmung strafbar. |
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Bayreuth issued this notgeld during the hyperinflationary spiral that consumed Weimar Germany between 1918 and 1923, when municipal and commercial bodies across Germany were forced to print emergency money simply to keep wages and transactions moving. Gebr. Parcus in Munich was one of the busier southern German notgeld printers of the period, handling contracts for numerous Bavarian municipalities simultaneously — which occasionally created consistency problems across runs.
The DeNG 3#034.01 reference places this within a well-documented but still actively researched notgeld classification system. Bayreuth's issues are not among the rarest of the period, but complete series in unbroken condition are harder to locate than individual notes suggest.