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5 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtrat Waltershausen (City Council of Waltershausen) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 5 Marks |
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| Obverse lettering | Kriegsgeld der Stadt Waltershausen Fünf Mark 5 Waltershausen, d. 22. Okt. 1918 Der Stadtrat Gültig bis 1. Februar 1919 |
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| Reverse lettering | Fünf Mark Die Stadt Waltershausen verpflichtet sich zur Einlösung bis zum 1. Februar 1919 An diesem Tag verliert der Schein seine Gültigkeit |
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Waltershausen is a small industrial town in Thuringia, and this 5 Mark note is a piece of German municipal emergency currency — Notgeld — issued by the city council during the acute coin shortage of 1918, when hoarding and wartime metal demands had stripped small-denomination coinage from everyday commerce. Thousands of German municipalities did the same that year, but most larger cities contracted professional security printers. Whether Waltershausen did the same or used local resources is not recorded in the standard references.
The DeNG 3#538.01 designation places it within Grabowski and Mehl's exhaustive Notgeld catalog, which lists Waltershausen among the smaller Thuringian issuers with limited surviving documentation on print runs or redemption records.