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5 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Schleswig (City of Schleswig) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Kriegsnotgeld issue printed in dark brown and yellow on buff paper, with bold letterpress numerals '5' at both left and right margins flanked by ornate Art Nouveau scroll vignettes. The central panel carries the denomination FÜNF MARK in large stylised Gothic lettering over a yellow guilloche underprint, with the circular city seal of Schleswig at upper left and the municipal coat of arms at upper right. Below the central text, four facsimile manuscript signatures are arranged in two columns above their respective printed official titles, with a yellow banner at the foot bearing the acceptance clause. |
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| Obverse lettering | KRIEGSNOTGELD DER STADT SCHLESWIG FÜNF MARK NAMENS DER STADT SCHLESWIG BÜRGERMEISTER BEIGEORDNETER STADTVERORDNETEN-VORSTEHER STELLV. STADTVERORDNETEN-VORSTEHER DIESER SCHEIN WIRD AN ALLEN STÄDTISCHEN KASSEN JEDERZEIT IN ZAHLUNG GENOMMEN. |
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Schleswig's municipal emergency currency from 1918 belongs to the vast Notgeld phenomenon that swept German-speaking territories as metal coinage disappeared into hoarding and war procurement. Stadt Schleswig — the ancient cathedral city on the Schlei fjord, then still fully within the German Reich — issued this 5 Mark note under the same municipal authority that would find itself at the center of a plebiscite dispute just two years later, when the post-war settlement forced Schleswig's population to vote on whether the region would remain German or transfer to Denmark.
The 1920 referendum split the duchy along linguistic lines. This note predates that partition by a matter of months.