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5 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Zweibrücken (City of Zweibrücken, Bavaria) |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | FÜNF MARK Kriegsnotgeld der Stadt Zweibrücken ausgegeben auf Grund des St.-B. v. 25. Oktober 1918. Gutschein über Fünf Mark Zweibrücken, 25. Oktober 1918. Der Stadteinnehmer: Der Bürgermeister: Dieser Gutschein wird spätestens zum 1. Febr. 1919 zur Einziehung und Einlösung aufgerufen werden. |
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| Reverse lettering | 5 MARK |
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Zweibrücken's 5 Mark Notgeld from 1918 is a municipal emergency issue, produced as small-denomination coinage disappeared from circulation during the final year of the First World War. German cities and towns were legally permitted — and practically compelled — to fill the gap themselves, leading to thousands of distinct local issues that flooded the country between 1914 and 1921.
Zweibrücken, a Palatine city with a long history as a ducal residence, issued under its own municipal authority rather than through a savings bank or chamber of commerce, which was the more common arrangement for Bavarian Notgeld of this period.