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5 Mark
| Issuer | Bezirksverband der Kgl. Amtshauptmannschaft Döbeln |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 5 Mark |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed in dark green on grey-green paper, the obverse is framed by a dense guilloche border with four corner denomination tablets each reading '5 MARK'. The central field opens with the Gothic-script heading 'Gutschein.' followed by the validity clause in Fraktur, a large bold Gothic 'Fünf Mark' denomination, and the issuing authority text dated 'Döbeln, den 8. November 1918'. At the foot, two manuscript signatures appear above the printed titles 'Amtshauptmann' and 'Kassierer', flanking the circular official seal of the Kgl. Amtshauptmannschaft Döbeln, with the printer's imprint along the lower margin; a circular cancellation punch hole passes through the centre of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein. Gültig im Bezirke der Amtshauptmannschaft Döbeln. Fünf Mark zahlt der Bezirksverband der Kgl. Amtshauptmannschaft Döbeln gegen Rückgabe dieses Gutscheines Döbeln, den 8. November 1918. Der Bezirksverband der Kgl. Amtshauptmannschaft Döbeln. Amtshauptmann Kassierer 5 MARK |
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Döbeln's Bezirksverband — the administrative district council, not a bank — issued this note under the emergency currency provisions that allowed German municipalities and regional bodies to print their own Notgeld from 1914 onward. By 1918 the system had grown chaotic, with thousands of local authorities producing paper in wildly varying quality. Ratsdruckerei R. Dulce in Glauchau was a municipal printing house, not a specialist security printer, and its output reflected that.
District-level Notgeld from Saxony at this late stage of the war is less commonly encountered than the better-known city issues from Leipzig or Dresden.