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5 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Rastatt (Municipality of Rastatt) |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Teal and cream letterpress Notgeld note enclosed within a decorative foliate scroll border. The denomination appears in large ornate Fraktur script reading "Fünf Mark", with a bold numeral "5" in an elaborate blackletter cartouche at centre-left, while a serial number box occupies the upper right with corner numerals "5". The municipal coat of arms of Rastatt is positioned at lower centre, flanked by the issuer name above and the council signature line with date and redemption text in Gothic script below. |
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| Reverse lettering | Stadtgemeinde Rastatt 5 FÜNF REICHSMARK FÜNF REICHSMARK MARK Dieser Schein wird spätestens bis 1. Februar 1919 zur Einlösung bei der Stadtkasse dahier und den hiesigen Banken aufgerufen Stadtgemeinde Rastatt (Translation: Municipality of Rastatt 5 FIVE REICHSMARK FIVE REICHSMARK MARK This banknote will be redeemed at the city cash office and the local banks by February 1, 1919 at the latest Municipality of Rastatt) |
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Rastatt's municipal emergency currency was authorized under the Reichsbank's wartime provisions permitting local bodies to issue Notgeld when small-denomination coinage had effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or redirected to war production. The municipality printed this locally, which is consistent with most Baden-area Notgeld of the period and keeps the paper thin and often poorly trimmed in surviving examples.
Five marks was on the high end for municipal Notgeld; most issuers stuck to pfennig and single-mark denominations. That this reached 5 Mark suggests acute local liquidity pressure in 1918, the final grinding year of the war.