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5 Mark
| Issuer | Distriktsgemeinden Lindau und Weiler |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Printer | J. Adolf Schwarz, Lindenberg im Allgäu |
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| Reverse description | Plain paper reverse printed in green, bearing a large Gothic numeral '5' at left and the denomination 'MARK' in bold serif capitals beneath it. A serial number prefixed by an asterisk appears at upper centre. A large oval validation stamp of the Königliches Bezirksamt Lindau in violet ink is applied to the right half of the note. The validity clause 'Nur giltig mit dem Stempel des K. Bezirksamts Lindau.' is printed along the lower margin, with the printer's imprint 'Schwarz, Lindenberg' at lower left. |
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| Protection type | Official stamp |
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Issued by the joint district communities of Lindau and Weiler during the acute coin shortage that gripped Germany in the final year of the First World War, this is a genuinely local Notgeld — not the decorative collector-oriented issues that flooded the market from 1920 onward, but an actual emergency instrument pressed into daily use when small-denomination coinage had effectively vanished from circulation. The printing by J. Adolf Schwarz in nearby Lindenberg im Allgäu kept production close to home, a practical necessity in a period when transport and supply chains were badly disrupted.
The official stamp serves as the sole security feature — thin protection, but typical of hastily authorized municipal scrip where the issuing authority's legitimacy was local and unquestioned.