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5 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Emmendingen (City of Emmendingen, Baden) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Size | 124 × 78 mm |
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| Obverse description | Printed in blue-grey on plain paper, the obverse carries the circular municipal seal of Emmendingen at left, bearing the city arms with a diagonal-banded shield, a crowned tower, and the legend STADTGEMEINDE EMMENDINGEN with the founding year 1590 at the base. To the right, the issuing authority STADT EMMENDINGEN appears in large Gothic lettering at the top, with the voucher designation Gutschein über in smaller type above the denomination Fünf Mark rendered in bold ornate script, followed by the place and date Emmendingen, den 30. Okt. 1918. The lower portion contains two facsimile signatures above the caption Der Gemeinderat, flanked at bottom corners by oval cartouches with the numeral 5 and the word Mark, and a redemption notice text box at lower centre. |
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| Reverse lettering | STADT EMMENDINGEN 5 MARK Wer solche Scheine nachmacht oder verfälscht oder nachgemachte oder verfälschte sich verschafft und in Verkehr bringt wird wegen Betrugs und Urkundenfälschung bestraft. |
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Emmendingen issued this 5 Mark note under the emergency currency provisions that proliferated across German municipalities after the Reichsbank suspended the obligation to exchange notes for coin in 1914. By 1918 the municipal Notgeld phenomenon had outgrown its original purpose — what began as a response to coin hoarding had become routine local finance, with towns effectively floating short-term debt on the backs of their citizens. Dölter, a local Emmendingen printer, handled production, which places this squarely in the category of hyperlocal issue rather than regionally coordinated emergency currency.
The relatively large denomination for municipal Notgeld of this period is worth noting — most town issues stuck to smaller values where coin shortages were most acute.