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5 Mark
| Issuer | Landesbank des Fürstentums Lippe, Detmold |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 5 Mark |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in brown on a plain paper ground, enclosed by a decorative border of stylised floral rosettes. A central circular vignette presents the heraldic coat of arms of the Principality of Lippe, surmounted by a princely crown and supported by two armoured figures, rendered in light tonal underprint. The denomination 'Fünf Mark' appears in bold Gothic blackletter above the arms, flanked on each side by a large ornamental numeral '5', with a two-line guarantee clause printed below the central vignette. |
| Reverse lettering | Fünf Mark Für die Einlösung dieses Scheines haftet der Lippische Staat. |
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Lippe was one of the smallest German principalities, and by 1918 its state bank was issuing emergency notes to cover the acute coin shortage that had stripped German retail commerce of small-denomination metal currency. The Landesbank des Fürstentums Lippe was not a major issuing authority — this 5 Mark note sits in a crowded field of Kleingeldscheine and notgeld produced across hundreds of German municipalities and regional institutions during the war's final year.
Lippe itself was absorbed into the Weimar Republic's administrative structure in 1918, becoming the Free State of Lippe. Notes issued under the princely designation had an extremely short window of legitimate relevance.