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5 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtkasse Mülhausen i. Els. (City Treasury of Mulhouse, Imperial Territory of Alsace-Lorraine) |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Reference(s) | JP1418#68 |
| Obverse description | Plain cream paper ground with a fine guilloche-type underprint. The title "Stadtkassen-Bon" is set in large bold letterpress type at the top, followed by the denomination "Fünf Mark" in a slightly smaller but equally bold face. Centre field carries the heraldic arms of Mülhausen — a crowned cartouche supported by two rampant lions, printed in red — flanked by the payment text and the date "3. August 1914"; to the right, a manuscript signature of the Bürgermeister appears in red ink above the printed countersignature lines for the issuing and control officers. The printer's imprint "Gebr. Nawratil, Mülhausen i. Els." appears at the foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadtkassen-Bon. Fünf Mark zahlt die Stadtkasse in Mülhausen i. Els. ohne Legitimationsprüfung dem Einlieferer dieses Stadtkassen-Bons in Beträgen von nicht unter zwanzig Mark. Mülhausen i. Els., den 3. August 1914. Der Bürgermeister : Ausgabe- und Zahlstelle ist die Städtische Sparkasse. Ausgefertigt : Der Kontrollbeamte : Gebr. Nawratil, Mülhausen i. Els. |
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Mulhouse had been German-administered since the Franco-Prussian War cession of 1871, but its population remained predominantly French-speaking and culturally resistant throughout the imperial period. This note was issued in August 1914 as part of the wave of municipal emergency money that flooded German cities and towns in the first weeks of the war, when hoarding stripped small-denomination coinage from circulation almost overnight.
Gebr. Nawratil was a local Mulhouse printer — not a specialist security press — which shows in the relatively simple execution. The city would fall under French military administration by late 1918, making the entire Mülhausen municipal issue series politically obsolete within four years of printing.