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5 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Staßfurt (Magistrat) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 5 Mark |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is divided into two panels on a green guilloche underprint. The left panel contains a vignette of a potash mining facility with two latticed headframes and industrial chimneys, above which appears a small circular city seal with a standing figure within a laurel wreath and the legend 'Wiege des Kali-Bergbaues' (Cradle of Potash Mining). The right panel bears the denomination numeral '5' in large red letterpress, the word 'Mark' in Gothic script, the issuance date 'Staßfurt, den 1. Oktober 1918', the authority line 'Der Magistrat' with three facsimile signatures below, and a two-line verse at the top in Gothic lettering. |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadt Staßfurt Wiege des Kali-Bergbaues In eiserner Zeit, dem Lande zur Wehr, Füll ich die Lücke im Kleingeldverkehr! Gegen diesen Schein zahlt die Stadthaupt kasse dem Überbringer 5 Mark Staßfurt, den 1. Oktober 1918. Der Magistrat. J. P. Himmer, Augsburg. |
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Staßfurt's municipal administration issued this 5 Mark note in 1918 under the Darlehnskassenschein framework that permitted German towns and cities to produce emergency paper during the war's final economic collapse. The potash mining industry dominated Staßfurt — the town is widely credited as the birthplace of industrial potash extraction — and the local economy was sufficiently active to warrant the magistrate guaranteeing small-denomination scrip of this value.
J. P. Himmer of Augsburg printed a large share of Bavaria's wartime Notgeld output, making the firm one of the more prolific municipal note printers of the period. Their production quality was consistent, which helps dating and attribution when magistrate stamps are faint.