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5 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Freiberg (City of Freiberg, Saxony) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse lettering | Fünf Mark Stadt Freiberg A Nr 028345 Wer Gutscheine nachmacht oder verfälscht oder nachgemachte oder verfälschte sich verschafft und in Verkehr bringt, wird mit Zuchthaus nicht unter zwei Jahren bestraft. KREY & SOMMERLAD, NIEDERSEDLITZ-DR. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Freiberg was one of Saxony's most historically significant mining towns, and its 1918 Notgeld issue came at the point of maximum strain on the imperial monetary system — metal coinage had long since vanished from circulation, absorbed by wartime requisitions. The printer Krey & Sommerlad operated out of Niedersedlitz, a Dresden suburb that handled considerable regional emergency currency work during this period. The watermarked paper was a deliberate step above bare-minimum production, suggesting the city intended these notes to retain some credibility in local trade.
The designer credit to Rieß is atypical for municipal Notgeld of this class — most cities didn't bother.