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5 Mark
| Issuer | Distrikstgemeinde Fürth i.B. |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | Blue-grey reverse printed on a fine guilloche underprint with repeated watermark-style numeral '5' scattered across the field. A central oval vignette carries the heraldic arms of Fürth — the Bavarian lozenge shield surmounted by a stylised anchor emblem within a laurel wreath — flanked by teal denomination panels reading '5 MARK'. Printer's imprint appears at lower left. |
| Reverse lettering | 5 MARK 5 MARK CARL GERBER, MÜNCHEN. |
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Fürth im Wald, a small market town in the Bavarian Forest near the Bohemian border, issued this note during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany in the latter half of 1918 as the war effort drained metal coinage from circulation entirely. District-level authorities across Bavaria were authorizing their own emergency paper at this point — Notgeld production had long since passed from a curiosity into a municipal necessity.
Carl Gerber in Munich was a reliable regional printer for this class of issue, used by numerous Bavarian Gemeinden that year. Nothing particularly unusual about the production arrangement.