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5 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Freiburg im Breisgau (Notgeld) |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black and ochre-gold on white paper, the obverse presents a central text panel enclosed by a double-rule border and an outer foliate scrollwork frame with corner medallions incorporating the Freiburg civic cross device. The issuer name in Fraktur script heads the panel, beneath which the denomination "Fünf Mark" is set in large Gothic letterpress, followed by the place and date of issue flanking a small eagle vignette within a laurel wreath. Two manuscript signatures appear at the foot, one each for Der Stadtrat and das Stadtrентamt. |
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| Reverse lettering | 5 MARK 5 Die Scheine werden spätestens zum 1. Febr. 1919 zur Einziehung und Einlösung ausgerufen. Wer Papiergeld nachmacht oder verfälscht oder nachgemachtes oder verfälschtes sich verschafft und in Verkehr bringt, wird mit Zuchthaus nicht unter 2 Jahren bestraft. A |
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Freiburg's municipal government issued this note under the emergency currency provisions that spread rapidly through German towns and cities from 1914 onward, accelerating sharply in 1918 as Reichsbank liquidity collapsed and coin hoarding stripped smaller denominations from circulation entirely. By the time this 5 Mark piece was printed, Notgeld had shifted from genuine emergency instrument to something municipalities also used to keep local money circulating within their own economies — spending that left town couldn't easily return.
Freiburg sits close enough to the Swiss and French borders that cross-border currency flight was a real municipal concern, not a theoretical one.