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5 Mark
| Issuer | Magistrat zu Guhrau |
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| Year | 1914-1915 |
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| Value | 5 Marks |
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| Obverse description | Printed on pink cardboard, this hand-cut square notgeld bears the denomination value "5 M." in all four corners in bold Gothic letterpress type. The central text reads "Gut für fünf Mark." in large Fraktur script, below which appears the issuing authority "Der Magistrat Guhrau" in a secondary line. Overlaid in violet ink is the circular official stamp of the Magistrat zu Guhrau, enclosing a municipal coat of arms at its centre, with the legend "DER MAGISTRAT ZU GUHRAU" running along the circumference. |
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| Obverse lettering | 5 M. Gut für fünf Mark. Der Magistrat Guhrau DER MAGISTRAT ZU GUHRAU |
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Guhrau — now Góra in Lower Silesia — was a small Prussian market town that found itself, like hundreds of German municipalities, scrambling for small change in the opening weeks of the First World War. The sudden hoarding of metal coinage created an acute shortage that central banking institutions were too slow to address, and so local Magistrate offices were legally permitted to issue their own emergency paper money, known as Notgeld. Guhrau's series is among the more compact municipal issues of that first wave, printed on stiff cardboard stock rather than conventional banknote paper.
The .2f suffix in the DeNG reference indicates a recognized variety — most likely a printing or perforation distinction within the series.