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5 Mark
| Issuer | City of Buer |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Size | 125 × 78 mm |
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| Obverse description | The obverse carries the municipal arms of Buer within a central vignette, surrounded by typeset text denoting the issuing authority and denomination. Decorative border elements frame the note, with the face value expressed in large numerals. The text is set in a combination of Gothic and Roman letterforms consistent with wartime German notgeld printing practice. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents the redemption and validity conditions in typeset Gothic script, referencing the expiry date of 1 February 1919. A simple ornamental border frames the text block, typical of municipal notgeld issues of this period. |
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Buer was an independent city in the Ruhr coalfields — not yet absorbed into Gelsenkirchen, a merger that wouldn't come until 1928. This note is Notgeld, emergency municipal currency issued during the acute coin shortage of the final war year, when hoarding had pulled virtually all silver and even base-metal coinage out of daily commerce. Hundreds of German towns issued similar scrip in 1918, but Buer's series stands out for its printer: Hermann Schött A.G. in Mönchengladbach was a commercial press, not a specialist banknote firm, which occasionally shows in the registration on surviving examples.