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5 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Halberstadt (Magistrat) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | Printed in brown and black on a fine guilloche underprint, the reverse carries a bold Fraktur heading 'Stadt Halberstadt' within a solid brown panel at the top, with a matching denomination panel 'Fünf Mark' at the foot. The central field presents the stylised municipal arms of Halberstadt — a black eagle displayed on a vertically-lined shield — set within a laurel wreath on columns. Flanking text in Fraktur records the redemption and validity conditions, with a red serial number printed in the lower right field. The printer's imprint 'FABER, MAGDEBURG.' appears at the lower right margin. |
| Reverse lettering | Stadt Halberstadt Dieser Gutschein wird von allen städtischen Kassen eingelöst Ungültig 1 Monat nach Aufruf in den hiesigen Zeitungen. Fünf Mark FABER, MAGDEBURG. |
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Halberstadt's municipal authority began issuing Notgeld in earnest during 1918 as the Reichsbank's ability to supply adequate small denomination notes collapsed under wartime fiscal pressure. This 5 Mark piece sits at the upper edge of what most German municipalities were issuing at the time — smaller Pfennig denominations dominated the Notgeld wave, and a 5 Mark municipal note carried enough face value to attract scrutiny from the public and from competing issuers.
C. Faber in Magdeburg was a regional commercial printer, not a specialist security firm, which was entirely typical for Notgeld production — necessity outweighed security printing standards completely by mid-1918.