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5 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Haspe (City of Haspe) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 5 Mark |
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| Obverse description | The note is printed in dark brown and red on a salmon-toned guilloche underprint of interlocking rosette patterns. The heading 'Gutschein * der * Stadt * Haspe' is set in bold blackletter across the top, with the denomination 'FÜNF' overprinted in red in the centre flanked by the numeral '5' on each side. A central vignette presents the heraldic shield of Haspe — divided per fess, with crossed hammers in the upper field and a cogwheel in the lower field, surmounted by a mural crown — framed by ornamental scrollwork borders. The date 'Haspe, den 1. Dez. 1918' and a redemption text appear in the lower portion, with a facsimile signature of the Bürgermeister at lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | Hasper Talsperre 5 5 So lange dä Hoaspe Water hiett, So lange vie noch Seißen schmiett, So lange hiett et känne Not, So lange heff vie ufe Brot! |
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Haspe was an independent industrial town in Westphalia — absorbed into Hagen in 1929 — and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1918, it issued its own emergency paper when the imperial coinage system collapsed under wartime metal shortages. These Stadtgeld issues were legal under emergency ordinance but explicitly temporary, redeemable against official currency once the crisis passed.
The 5 Mark denomination sits at the upper end of municipal Notgeld from this period, suggesting it was intended to cover wages and larger local transactions rather than small retail change. Most Haspe issues from 1918 were redeemed and destroyed promptly after stabilization, which accounts for the relative scarcity of circulated survivors.