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5 Mark
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Marienburg (Westpreußen) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Size | 97 × 67 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | Für die Einlösung des Notgeldscheines haftet die Stadtgemeinde Marienburg Notgeld Fünf (5) Mark Marienburg Westpr., den 13. November 1918 Der Magistrat der Stadt Marienburg Westpr. Dieser Notgeldschein verliert seine Gültigkeit, wenn er nicht innerhalb eines Monats nach erfolgter öffentlicher Aufforderung des Magistrats zur Einlösung bei der Stadthauptkasse zu Marienburg Westpr. vorgelegt wird. |
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| Protection type | Official seal |
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Marienburg — now Malbork, Poland — was the seat of the Teutonic Knights' grand masters and, by 1918, a mid-sized Westprussia garrison town issuing its own emergency paper alongside hundreds of other German municipalities. This Notgeld note appeared as the imperial monetary system buckled under wartime strain, with the Reichsbank unable to keep small-denomination coinage in circulation. Local magistrates were legally permitted to fill that gap, and Marienburg did so with a 5 Mark piece bearing nothing more sophisticated than an official municipal seal as its sole check against forgery.
The seal alone made counterfeiting awkward but hardly impossible. Worth remembering when examining any example.