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5 Mark
| Issuer | Amtskörperschaft Geislingen-Steige (District Office of Geislingen an der Steige) |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Kriegs-Notgeld Amtskörperschaft Geislingen-St. Fünf Mark Giltig bis 1. Februar 1919 Verlängerungsdauer vorbehalten. Ausgegeben im November 1918 Namens der Amtskörperschaft. Oberamtmann: No |
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| Reverse lettering | Fünf Mark 5 |
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Geislingen an der Steige is a small industrial town in Württemberg, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1918, its district office issued notgeld when the imperial monetary system buckled under wartime hoarding and metal shortages. This 5 Mark piece sits at the upper end of the denomination range for municipal emergency issues — most towns stayed well below that figure, making larger-denomination notgeld from small Amtskörperschaften relatively uncommon.
A. Mayer was a local printer, not a specialist security firm, which shows in these issues. Examine the paper carefully: counterfeiting of mid-to-high-denomination municipal notes was a documented problem in Württemberg during the final quarter of 1918.