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5 Mark
| Issuer | Oberamtsbezirk Blaubeuren |
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| Value | 5 Mark |
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| Obverse lettering | ·Kriegsgeld· Oberamtsbezirk Blaubeuren Die Amtskörperschaft zahlt dem Überbringer fünf Mark — Giltig bis 1. August 1919. Verlängerung vorbehalten. Der Bezirksrat. Vorsitzender: Regierungsrat |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark ink on a light ground with geometric border panels at top and bottom. The town name 'Blaubeuren' is set in large Gothic blackletter script across the upper register, flanked by the denomination numeral '5' in the top corners. A central heraldic vignette presents the municipal coat of arms of Blaubeuren, showing a standing figure in period costume flanked by two antler-like branches. Below the arms, the denomination '5 Mark 5' is rendered in bold Gothic type, with a red serial number printed twice — once at the top and once at the bottom of the note. |
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Blaubeuren was a small administrative district in Württemberg, and emergency money issued at the Oberamtsbezirk level represents some of the most locally specific Notgeld produced during Germany's post-WWI crisis period. District-level issues like this one were authorized under desperate circumstances — municipal and regional authorities scrambling to fill the vacuum left by chronic small-denomination coin shortages and, later, accelerating inflation.
Paper Notgeld from Oberamtsbezirk issuers tends to survive in better condition than circulated Reichsbank material simply because much of it was redeemed quickly or saved by collectors almost immediately upon issue.