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5 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Remscheid (City of Remscheid) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Size | 131 × 78 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadt Remscheid Fünf Mark Zahlt die Stadtkasse in Remscheid dem Einlieferer dieses Scheines. Remscheid den 15. Nov. 1918 Der Oberbürgermeister: Dieser Schein verliert seine Gültigkeit 3 Monate nach erfolgter Aufkündigung in den Remscheider Zeitungen. |
| Reverse description | Printed in the same rose-red on plain paper, the reverse presents an elaborate guilloche border matching the obverse, with circular rosette corner ornaments and the numeral '5' at left and right within the border. The central vignette is a large circular guilloche frame enclosing the heraldic arms of Remscheid — a quartered shield supported by two human figures with an eagle crest above — flanked by decorative scroll cartouches. The inscriptions 'Stadt' and 'Remscheid' appear at lower left and right of the central vignette, and the printer's imprint 'SCHOTT ACT. GES. RHEYDT' is printed in small type at the very foot of the note. |
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Remscheid's 1918 emergency issue belongs to the vast wave of German municipal Notgeld produced as the imperial financial system buckled under wartime strain. The city, a major center of tool and cutlery manufacture in the Bergisches Land, issued its own scrip because small-denomination Reichsmark coinage had effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply never minted in sufficient volume.
Schott Act. Ges. in Rheydt handled a considerable volume of Notgeld contracts for Rhenish municipalities during this period, which makes their output technically competent but rarely distinctive.