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5 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Mühlhausen i. Thür. (Magistrat) |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed in blue on cream paper within a decorative border of oak leaves and acorns at the corners and along the sides. The issuer's name 'Stadt Mühlhausen i. Thür.' is set in Gothic script at the head of the note, with the denomination numeral '5' at each upper corner flanking the inscription 'Ersatzschein für' in roman type; the central value legend 'Fünf Mark' appears in large ornate Fraktur. Validity and redemption clauses in smaller type occupy the lower portion, with the issue date '2. November 1918' at lower left, a manuscript serial number prefixed 'No', and a handwritten Magistrat signature at lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | Stadt-Haupt-Kassa |
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Mühlhausen in Thuringia is better remembered as the town where Thomas Müntzer led the 1525 peasant uprising than as a center of wartime finance, but by late 1918 its municipal magistrate was doing what hundreds of German towns were doing: issuing Notgeld to compensate for the catastrophic shortage of small-denomination Reichsbank coin that wartime metal requisitioning had created. Municipal paper of this type had no backing beyond local administrative authority.
The 5 Mark denomination sits at the upper end of what most town magistracies were authorized to issue independently — anything larger typically required provincial or state sanction.