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5 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtkasse Überlingen (City of Überlingen) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Printer | Druckerei Wilhelm Veith |
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| Obverse description | The upper portion carries a central vignette within a red-bordered cartouche showing a crowned lion passant holding a sword, flanked by a black imperial eagle and decorative acanthus scrollwork in olive and black. Below, a text panel in Gothic Kurrent script states the note's validity and redemption terms, dated Überlingen, 19 Oktober 1918, with a red serial number at lower left and a circular red official seal of the Bürgermeisteramt Überlingen at centre, accompanied by a manuscript signature of the Bürgermeister. The denomination "5 Mark" appears in large red Gothic lettering across the bottom panel, flanked by grotesque mask ornaments. |
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| Reverse description | A bold woodcut-style vignette occupies the central panel, showing a German steel-helmeted soldier bearing an Iron Cross on his chest, enveloped by a mass of coiling serpents in a dramatic allegorical war composition rendered in olive, black, and red. The artist's signature "v. Mezger" appears at the lower right of the vignette. Above the image runs the inscription "Kriegsnotgeld der bad. Stadt" and below it "Überlingen am Bodensee", with the denomination "Fünf Mark" in large red Gothic blackletter across the bottom strip, all framed by a decorative dot-and-diamond border. |
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| Protection description | Red circular embossed/printed official seal of the Bürgermeisteramt Überlingen with imperial eagle at centre |
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