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5 Mark
| Issuer | Kreisausschuß Reichenbach in Schlesien (District Committee of Reichenbach in Silesia) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 5 Mark |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries the large Gothic Fraktur inscription 'Fünf Mark' across the upper field, flanked by the designations 'Kriegsnotgeld des Kreises' at upper left and 'Reichenbach- in Schlesien' at upper right. A central vignette presents a line-art view of the Reichenbach town hall, a multi-storey municipal building surmounted by a prominent clock tower with spire, set within a cream-coloured oval cartouche with numeral '5 Mark' panels to either side. Below the vignette, a three-line redemption notice in Gothic script is set within the same denticulated border framework as the obverse. |
| Reverse lettering | Fünf Mark Kriegsnotgeld des Kreises Reichenbach- in Schlesien 5 Mark die Einlösung dieses Scheines muß bis zum 1. Februar 1919 bei der Kreiskommunalkasse Reichenbach in Schlesien erfolgt sein – andernfalls der Schein verfällt. |
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Reichenbach in Silesia — now Dzierżoniów in southwestern Poland — was one of hundreds of German administrative districts that issued emergency paper currency during the profound post-war liquidity crisis of 1919. These Notgeld issues were authorized locally because Reichsbank coin and small-denomination bills had virtually disappeared from circulation, hoarded or melted down during the war years. The Kreisausschuß, the elected district committee, had the administrative standing to commission and back such issues, giving them a marginally more durable legal status than purely municipal scrip.
Carl Flemming A.G. was a well-established Glogau firm with significant cartographic and commercial print history — not a specialist security printer, which is why the embossed dry seal carries so much of the authentication burden here.