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5 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Pforzheim (City of Pforzheim) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein über Fünf Mark der Stadt Pforzheim. Gültig bis 1. Febr. 1919. Der Oberbürgermeister. |
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| Protection type | Embedded fibers |
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Pforzheim's municipal administration issued this note as part of the Notgeld wave that followed Germany's defeat in 1918, when the Reichsbank could not supply enough small-denomination currency to meet daily transactional demand. Cities, towns, and even individual businesses stepped in as de facto issuers — legally tolerated, practically necessary. Pforzheim, a center of the German jewelry and watchmaking industry, had its own administrative capacity and issued a reasonably coherent series rather than the more improvised single-sheet emergency pieces common in smaller municipalities.
The embedded security fibers indicate deliberate counterfeit deterrence at the printing stage — unusual attention for municipal paper of this denomination and period.