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5 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Kitzingen |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 5 Marks |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in dark blue and teal on a fine guilloche underprint ground. A central vignette within a rectangular frame bears the bold letterpress inscriptions 'NOTGELD / FÜNF / MARK', surmounted by an allegorical winged figure carrying a large platter. Flanking the central panel are two oval vignettes, each enclosing a classical allegorical figure amid foliate decoration, with teal denomination panels reading '5 MARK' at lower left and right. A text panel at the bottom records the issuing authority, date of issue (8 November 1918), validity clause, and bears a manuscript signature for Stadtgemeinde Kitzingen, with the serial number and validity date 'GÜLTIG BIS 1. FEBR. 1919' inscribed at upper left and right respectively. |
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| Obverse lettering | GÜLTIG BIS 1. FEBR. 1919 No 03174 NOTGELD FÜNF MARK 5 MARK Diesen Betrag zahlen bis einschließlich 1. Febr. 1919 die Kassen der unterfertigten Stadtgemeinde, die bayer. Girozentrale od. deren Zahlstellen ohne Legitimationsprüfung dem Einlieferer des Scheines, soferne die aufgedruckte Nummer unversehrt ist. Am 8. November 1918. Stadtgemeinde Kitzingen: |
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Kitzingen's 5 Mark Notgeld of 1918 belongs to the first wave of municipal emergency currency — issued before Germany's defeat was official, when the central supply of small-denomination coins had dried up almost completely due to wartime hoarding and metal requisitioning. Towns like Kitzingen were effectively left to fend for themselves, and Carl Gerber in Munich handled a significant volume of such commissions from Bavarian municipalities that year.
Gerber was a competent commercial printer rather than a security specialist, which shows in the relatively modest anti-counterfeiting measures on notes of this type.