Catalog
5 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt- und Landkreis Bonn und Siegkreis |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Grey-toned notgeld printed on plain paper with a fine wavy guilloche border framing the entire face. The issuer's title in Gothic Fraktur script appears across the upper portion, with the denomination "5 Mark" set in large bold type at centre within an ornate lozenge-shaped guilloche underprint; the numeral 5 is repeated in each corner. A circular red control stamp is applied to the lower right, and a serial number appears on the voucher line reading "Gutschein Nº ___ über". |
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| Reverse lettering | M. DUMONT SCHAUBERG, KÖLN. |
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Issued as Notgeld — emergency municipal currency — by the combined administrative districts of Bonn and the Siegkreis, this note reflects the severe coin shortage that gripped Germany during and immediately after the First World War. The Dumont Schauberg printing house in Cologne, better known as a newspaper publisher (the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger was their flagship), was pressed into banknote production precisely because specialist security printers were overwhelmed by wartime demand.
The Siegkreis connection is worth noting: the joint issuance across two distinct administrative units was an administrative workaround, not standard procedure.