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5 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Neuss (City of Neuss) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark blue on cream paper in Fraktur blackletter script throughout. The denomination numeral '5' appears in a dark oval cartouche at upper left, with the city name 'Stadt Neuß' in large Fraktur above centre-right. The municipal coat of arms with two lion supporters and crown occupies the upper right corner. A foliate underprint of vine and leaf motifs frames the design, with the value legend 'Fünf Mark' in a decorative scroll panel below the coat of arms. |
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| Obverse lettering | 5 Stadt Neuß Fünf Mark Dieser Schein wird von allen städtischen Kassen in Zahlung genommen. Er verliert seine Gültigkeit einen Monat nach Aufkündigung in der Neuss-Grevenbroicher und Neusser Zeitung. Neuß, den 12. November 1918. Der Oberbürgermeister : (Translation: 5 City of Neuss Five Marks This note will be accepted by all municipal cashiers. It loses its validity one month after announcement in the Neuss-Grevenbroich and Neuss newspapers. Neuss, November 12, 1918. The Mayor :) |
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Neuss issued this note in 1918 as part of the broader Notgeld wave sweeping German municipalities during the final year of the war, when acute coin shortages forced local authorities — cities, towns, even individual businesses — to print emergency fractions and denominations themselves. At 5 Mark, this sits at the upper end of municipal Notgeld values for the period; most issues clustered around the smaller Pfennig denominations.
Schött Actien-Gesellschaft in Rheydt was a regional commercial printer, not a specialist security press. That matters: these notes carried no sophisticated anti-counterfeiting measures beyond whatever overprints or serial numbering the issuing city chose to apply.