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5 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Mainz (City of Mainz) |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in Fraktur (blackletter) script on paper with a light green guilloche underprint composed of repeating circular medallion patterns incorporating the city name as a security element. The heading 'Gutschein der Stadt Mainz über Fünf Mark' is set within a decorative scrollwork border at the top, with the issue date 'Mainz, 16. Oktober 1918' and the authority title 'Der Oberbürgermeister' flanking a manuscript signature at lower centre. A small embossed city seal vignette appears at upper left, and a punch-cancellation hole is visible in the vicinity of the seal. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted cream-coloured paper reverse bearing a central block of Fraktur text setting out the statutory anti-counterfeiting warning prescribed under the Strafgesetzbuch, with a blind-embossed official city seal of Mainz applied at upper right and a punch-cancellation hole passing through the note. |
| Reverse lettering | Wer Gutscheine nachmacht oder verfälscht oder nachgemachte oder verfälschte sich verschafft und in Verkehr bringt, wird nach den einschlägigen Bestimmungen des Strafgesetzbuchs mit Zuchthaus bestraft. |
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