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5 Mark
| Issuer | Distrikt Berchtesgaden |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Reference(s) | DeNG 3#038.03 |
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| Obverse lettering | Distrikt Berchtesgaden Gutschein über Fünf Mark Berchtesgaden, 29. April 1919. Distrikt Berchtesgaden. Dieser Gutschein wird spätestens zum 1. August 1919 zur Einlösung aufgerufen. |
| Reverse description | White ground within a plain border, dominated by a central green oval guilloche surround enclosing the denomination "5 Mark" in Fraktur script with a small decorative flourish beneath. Four stylised floral rosette ornaments in green are placed at the corners of the oval frame. Above, the voucher title "Gutschein des Distrikts Berchtesgaden über" is set in letterpress Fraktur. A two-line forgery warning in German occupies the lower portion, with the printer's imprint at foot. |
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Berchtesgaden's 1919 notgeld issues emerged from the same municipal desperation that drove hundreds of small German towns to print their own emergency scrip as the Weimar-era coin shortage bit hard. Vonderthann & Sohn were a local printing house, not a specialist currency printer — the note was produced entirely within the district it was meant to serve, which is unusual even by notgeld standards.
The DeNG 3#038.03 reference places this within the Grabowski-Mehl notgeld cataloguing system. Berchtesgaden issues from this period are not particularly scarce but attract collector interest disproportionate to their rarity, largely due to the town's later associations.