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5 Mark
| Issuer | Kreisausschuss des Kreises Cochem (District Committee of Cochem) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 5 Mark |
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| Obverse lettering | LANDKREIS COCHEM Mark 5 Gutschein über Fünf Mark Dieser Gutschein wird vom Landkreise Cochem durch die Kreiskommunalkasse in Zahlung genommen. Der allgemeine Einlösungstermin tritt drei Monate nach vorheriger Bekanntgabe im Kreisblatt und der Cochemer Zeitung ein. Cochem, den 19. November 1918. Der Kreisausschuß des Kreises Cochem. Der Vorsitzende. |
| Reverse description | Printed entirely in olive-green on pale paper, the reverse is dominated by a central oval vignette of Burg Cochem (Reichsburg Cochem) with the town skyline and the Moselle river in the foreground, labelled 'BURG COCHEM'. The oval is flanked on each side by a large numeral '5' in a plain reserve, and the surrounding guilloche border incorporates repeating motifs of oak and vine leaves with grape clusters. The legend 'LANDKREIS COCHEM' runs along all four outer margins in spaced capitals. |
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Cochem's district committee issued this note in 1918 as local purchasing power collapsed under wartime shortages — one of thousands of Notgeld emissions flooding Germany as the central monetary system buckled. The Rhineland districts were particularly active issuers, partly because the region's relative isolation from major banking infrastructure made small-denomination emergency notes a practical necessity rather than a political gesture.
The embossed seal was the issuer's primary authentication method, replacing printed security features that smaller municipal authorities couldn't access. It's the detail that distinguishes genuine district-issued pieces from the commemorative Notgeld produced speculatively after the war for collector markets.